Alice Isn't Dead

by Joseph Fink

Keisha was sure that she had successfully fooled her parents, but her parents knew. Except in some ways they didn’t know. 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.

“A few bad apples, shit. Good apples and bad apples don’t matter if the outcome of the system is harmful. A good person doesn’t matter if they’re working in a bad system.”

If a point of view becomes one’s entire identity, what was monstrous on the inside can become monstrous on the outside.”

But like all impossible tasks, it was made of a lot of small, doable actions.