Christy Shick

Christy Shick teaches at San Francisco State University, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York. Her essays and stories have appeared in various journals, most recently The Real Story, Barely South Review and Six Hens literary magazine; in 2017, she received the Norton Girault Literary Prize for Creative Nonfiction from Old Dominion University.

La Vieja, Santa Ana

I hadn’t planned on stopping again until after we’d crossed the border. We’d filled the tank and used toilets at a Pemex in Hermosillo. From there it was only a few hours to Nogales, hot dusty hours stretching into desert when a burst of pain, like a metal hammer bit into my driving heel and shot like lightening up my hip.
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