To Live Before We Say Good-bye

Anne Cusack

Chicago Tribune

Slumped over her father's shoulder, Alexis went pollywog hunting through the cat tails. 'Alexis, she's not an egg,' her mother said, 'She's not going to break. If we lock her inside, she might as well be dead.'

Anne Cusack, "To Live Before We Say Good-bye," in POYi Archive, Item #13082, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/13082 (accessed May 9, 2025).