Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bite or a surreal edge, each electrically charged story in Circling the Drain presents women t...
Actually, he found me. I’d shoveled Bluebell and Olivia’s messes and moved on to the horses. Charlie appeared as I was grooming Dos. I had spent the entire morning alone with animals, and his voice caught me off guard. “Hey there,” he said. “Ah,” was the best I could manage. I coughed. “I thought...