"Little Girl Lost" - by Jon Fletcher
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"Little
Girl Lost" Walking past her sleeping mother, 4-year-old Krystal leaves their government-subsidized apartment and heads across the vacant parking lot. By dusk, the area will be alive with the loud and raucous activities of her "adult" role models. Krystal spends her days with babysitters or unsupervised with neighborhood children, occasionally walking near the busy highway. She and her 3-year-old "boyfriend" ignorantly imitate what they see through the cracks in bedroom doors. On Sundays, an elderly woman provides transportation for any children wishing to go to church. Although the pastor must sometimes interrupt his service to quiet Krystal's loudly whispered conversations, she says she enjoys the experience: "I love Jesus because he loves me." |
(Click here to see Melissa Lyttle's entry, "The Newberry Auction House")
Entries coordinated by Associate
Professor John Freeman
email: jfreeman@jou.ufl.edu
posted Feb. 15, 1999
