The Return of Ellie Black

by Emiko Jean

But often, Chelsey wondered if her father, if people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons. The dangerous things boys do. How they might be raised differently.

Even though they lived, even though Ellie didn’t face charges, something has irrevocably been lost. She would ask the media, the world: When will it be enough? How society accepts women dying at the hands of men. Chelsey mourns girlhood.