Alice Isn't Dead

by Joseph Fink

They knew, but didn’t like it, and so made a choice to not know. People are capable of that, of knowing but choosing at the same time not to know.

At night, in the least lit corners, teenagers learned the best secrets of being an adult, before trudging, the next day, to their cashier jobs in the Target or the cell-phone stores to learn the worst secrets of being an adult.