Elizabeth Herr

Elizabeth Herr studied creative writing and Spanish at Hamilton College. She enjoys writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and workshopping with her writer friends. She is an avid fiction and nonfiction reader and two of her favorites are "Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl" by Jeannie Vanasco and "Solar Storms" by Linda Hogan. She plans to teach English in Spain for the incoming academic year and continue her writing abroad.

Between These Overflowing Aisles

If Mina stared long and hard enough at the harsh fluorescent lighting, she could disappear into the abyss of all the other times she burned under its harsh whiteness–she could forget where she was, how old she was, who she was. Mina wondered if these self-proclaimed staring contests with the lights were the cause of her headaches, or if there was something actually wrong with her.
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