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Valerie Vogrin

Valerie Vogrin is the author of the novel Shebang (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Florida Review, Natural Bridge, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and prose editor of Sou'wester.

Pendleton

17 December 2008
Vol. 8, No. 4
fiction, flash fiction

The first time I had intercourse with a boy I was twelve and he was sixteen and our union was consummated atop a station wagon, pulling out of a dirt road, accelerating down a paved highway, reaching a reported speed of 96 miles per hour.