You Between the Lines

by Katie Naymon

the scarier kind of writing, the kind where you spit yourself out on a page and lay yourself bare for strangers to dissect.

When you’re an only child, you’re part of a three-person clique. And when the equilibrium of the clique is off-kilter because two members are fighting, it’s on the third to comfort and appease and fix in a desperate attempt to make everyone like one another again.