BySara Schaff

Sara Schaff teaches at Oberlin College. Her writing has appeared in Hunger Mountain, FiveChapters, The Rumpus, Carve Magazine, and elsewhere. Find more of her work at saraschaff.com.

  1. The trip costs three dollars round trip. You have to stand in the aisle, it gets so crowded. To occupy yourself, you watch the other passengers, people like you who have waited all week to go to the beach. A man wearing headphones, reading the newspaper. He sits near a beautiful woman with a small child in her lap. Her two chestnut-haired daughters perch on a cooler in the aisle behind you, playing cards. In…

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