SAD STORY

Hometown / Playground
Swing-set / Met J
Swam lake / Shucked rocks
Sank ducks / Sang songs
Grew up / Drank Jack
Took drugs / Got dead
Airplane / Overhead

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K.A. Webb is the co-founder of the Nitty-Gritty Magic City Reading Series. She holds an MFA from UNC-Wilmington where she led Teens Out Loud, an arts initiative for youth born HIV positive. Her work, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, has appeared in The New York Times, Arts & Letters, North American Review, PoemMemoirStory, among others. She lives with her husband, Russell Hehn, their new son and an old dog in Birmingham, Alabama.