account_circle by Renate Krakauer
Renate Krakauer has been published in Parchment, Dovetails, and the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. A resident of Toronto, she was awarded second place in the Silver Quill Short Story 2006 contest and will be published in two anthologies and upcoming issues of FoliateOak and The Storyteller.

Macro-Fiction

Shards of Glass

Issue No. 125 ~ October, 2007

"For the first few nights, I woke up in the dark screaming and Mama would lie down with me until I fell asleep again. In the daytime, I kept searching the street hoping to see Irina and the boys coming to take me back to the village...But nobody came..."