After a stunned period, I resumed querying agents. What else was there to do?

I want to go back to being a child, when I believed that protecting animals was something I could do.

She says, “Just hum me a few bars” — as though you were the one in charge of this gig.

I think now, in this time of violence and protest, of what Steve Cannon would say about the madness of some and the resolve of others.