Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men In My Country. Recent essays and short stories have appeared in AGNI, The Sun, The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, and The Laurel Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA Program at Saint Mary’s College of California.

HERE/YOU ARE

What Stood Out

By MARILYN ABILDSKOV

“The job would be easy. That's what everyone said.”