Summer of Salt

by Katrina Leno

“Doesn’t this just feel like a night of limitless possibility?”

So beautiful... I'd give anything to feel that way again.

I knew that he would use that gun, because that is what small, scared men did: they used things more powerful than themselves to make up the difference. They hid behind weapons of mass destruction: big guns and bigger bombs. They were small, small, small—

Because there was nothing in a girl’s history that might negate her right to choose what happens to her body.