Notes on an Execution

by Danya Kukafka

Here is how Izzy Sanchez would like to be remembered:

I wrote this scene on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Seattle. My partner and I had just come home from brunch with friends, and the image of the sailboat randomly came to me. I sat down in my office, and typed it out; this scene has remained intact from the first draft, nearly word for word. It opened so many intellectual doors for me. It allowed the Girls, finally, to have a say.