Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

by Tanya Marquardt

Where there are sixteen-year-old girls who don’t want to go home, there are forty-year-old men with shitty cars, Lucky Lager beer, and Export “A” cigarettes.

I would come to myself in the form of to-do lists and places I needed to be, and as the world came to me, I could grasp the sensation of my personhood.