What Happens to Little Girls
"Something in the hole grabs back. Something that doesn’t give up. Something with fingers and nails just like mine."
“Listen to me, and stay away from that damn hole,” Gramma says. “Cause if you don’t, it’ll eat you up just like it did my daughter.”
Julie Cadman-Kim’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. You can see more of her writing at juliecadman-kim.com.
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