Farther Along

This story, is hers.

I tell it...

based solely on the fragments I know, because history matters.

I tell it...

to understand her better.

Though gut wrenching to do,

I share it, because she has long ago left this world

for another where shame cannot reach us.

And I tell it...

in the hope of keeping it from happening to another young girl. *excerpt previously published in Voices from the Plains anthology series Volume 6