Composition of a Disappearance

FictionIssue 36
Written by Ashley Lopez

The teacher’s aides make the best of it when Ms. Clark doesn’t show up on Thursday. The kids play the Quiet Game, and the violent boy loses every round.

Ashley Lopez

Ashley Lopez received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. She works in publishing and lives in Brooklyn.

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