The 7-10 Split

by Karmen Lee

“I’m an English teacher. Words are my weapons and I wield them with glee.”

Grace was a hopeless romantic. Or maybe just hopeless. She hadn’t quite decided.

You know, it’s not a bad thing to not know what you want to do for the rest of your life. You’re only old when you’re dead.”

How else was she supposed to act when confronted with the one former friend whose absence she felt the hardest? How was she supposed to act when she had been so easily left behind?

“I realized a lot of things when looking at you, but none of them had to do with bowling.”