Wendell the dog awoke to the wonderful smell of summer.Samantha the cat stretched and yawned. She could smell it too. "This is a perfect day for...""...going to the beach, right?" Wendell said."No ... [+]
Emily Gajda grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She enjoys solo travel and espresso tonics, and is rarely seen without her LSAT study guide. "swim." was a runner-up in Short Edition's Long Story Short Award, 2022.
At 10 A.M., Wells Beach, Maine was too quiet.I should've been in New York City, working at the publishing house that offered me that internship back in March. I should've been waking up at 7 A.M. to shower and putting on business formal; catching the L train to head across the river and then downtown.I would've been in New York City if it weren't for a round of budget cuts. A week before my train was going to leave, they told me I had no job. I would've been thinking about where to go dancing and sneaking off with my new friends for coffee. I would've been wearing Manolo Blahnik heels and eati