Stephanie Brooks teaches sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibits her work internationally. Recent publications include Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower (Green Lantern, 2009).
It’s the first day of summer and everyone’s scurrying to a thing they’re unsure of, eyes locked away from the guy who’s approaching the driver’s side window. Jack the five-year-old rides by on his orange bike with its propellers spinning a...