Sara Kay Rupnik

Sara Kay Rupnik holds a M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College and is co-founder of Around the Block Writers Collaborative. She teaches creative writing for the Jekyll Island (GA) Arts Association. Her fiction, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and short-listed for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, appears in literary journals in the U.S. and the U.K. Women Longing to Fly (Mayapple Press, 2015) is her first collection of short stories.

When Lucinda Holloway Met J.W. Booth, April 1865

The Holloway sisters observed the man calling himself James Boyd as they might a work of art. He lay under the apple tree with his black hat angled over his pale face. His dark moustache rose above his straight white teeth.
“A handsome man,” offered Cecelia, the married sister and mother of three sons.
Lucinda, the spinster schoolmarm, was less generous. “One might say so.”
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