Winner of the 2001 A. E. Coppard Prize for Long Fiction

Originally published as "Raped Diaries" by White Eagle Coffee Store Press

© 2001 Katherine Glover

Contents

ONE: Joan's started writing again, after two months. Tentatively. Cautiously. She doesn't write very often or very much. She avoids certain topics. She doesn't know I still read every word of it.

TWO: It started with Joel. I met him pretty much the same way I met Summer, sitting with my bike reading...

b: I didn't read it at first. I just kept it beside my bed and stared at it.

c: Brittany was the one who introduced me to Joan.

THREE: The class Summer shares with Joan meets at 6:30pm on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

b: Summer drives a ten-year-old white Chrysler with Michigan plates.

c: We return to the diner a week later.

d: At night time I am hungry. I slip out at eleven and walk to the campus grille, head down, trying not to make-eye contact with anyone.

e: For two days everything moves really slowly.