Courtney Angela Brkic

Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of The First Rule of Swimming (Little, Brown, and Company, 2013), Stillness: and Other Stories (FSG, 2003) and The Stone Fields (FSG, 2004). Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Zoetrope, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Harpers & Queen, the Utne Reader, National Geographic, and Slate.com among others. She teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.

Ashes Above Us

I want to know what became of the girl but my aunts don’t know anything more about her, not even her name.