Some things you just know. Zara’s Advanced Humanities teacher encouraged her to call it intuition. Zara was pretty sure sharing a bloodline with people gave you an intuitive edge about them but that didn’t necessarily constitute an intuitive gift. Since childhood Zara had a sense that her parents were living with a big secret. She had suspicions about the family history but there was conveniently no family with whom to cross check the facts. Zara imagined walking into Ms. Myer’s room before class and announcing she was the product of an ungodly union. Ms. Myer would most likely immediately chide her for bringing religion into the mix. She’d guide Zara to focus on the obvious illegal aspect and make a claim that her mother/aunt was the victim of abuse. Things would definitely not end well. Maybe her parents really were just teenage runaways with mutually disowned families.
8 min April 2, 2014, in bed in the East Village, NY
Prompt source: 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
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