Someone Else's Secret

by Julia Spiro

The rest of the bras Carol bought her were nude colored and reminded Georgie of the pounded chicken breast cutlets they served at camp.

She could see that one of the girls wore a bright-pink bikini. The color popped against the beach, like an electric neon sign: OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

Lindsey had to do a double take when she passed by a beautiful white-picket-fenced house surrounded by rosebushes, with a sign in front that read DUKES COUNTY JAIL. When she looked closer, she saw that the windows had iron bars inside. Edgartown was like an alternate universe in which even criminals seemed to be living the white-picket-fence dream.

her breasts, which were just beginning to form like sore little mounds of dough.