Consider this ten-year-old girl, tall, with winsome dimples and ocean-blue eyes. She’s shy around adults, talkative with her friends. Her straight brown hair almost reaches her waist, and her black cotton robe covers a swimsuit no one sees. Barefoot, she steps down into the baptismal tank, its sides and bottom painted blue. When she stops […]
JoAnne E. Lehman
JoAnne E. Lehman earned an MFA through the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published creative nonfiction in The Cresset, The Writing Disorder, Farmer-ish, and Round Table Literary Journal.