“Ghost” was published online in the March 2011 issue of Word Riot.
(… and liked by Seth Fischer at The Rumpus. )
When Ghost was nine years old, her mother led her into a dark tent at the edge of the Sacramento County Fair to have her palm read by a woman with jangly bracelets and too much eye make-up.
Madam Something-or-other held Ghost’s sticky little girl hands in hers, traced the heart line, head line, life line, and told her she would have a happy life, that hers was an entrepreneurial soul, and she would find success as long as she never let a man in close.