title: Girling (The Driftless Unsolicited Novella Series)
author: C. Kubasta
description: <b>C. Kubasta</b> writes poetry, fragments, prose and occasional reviews &amp; columns. Her poetry book, <em>All Beautiful &amp; Useless</em> (BlazeVOX, 2015) explored growing up girl in rural Wisconsin; her second collection, <em>Of Covenants</em>, released from Whitepoint Press in November 2017. She lives, writes &amp; teaches in Wisconsin, where she is often inspired by the rural, the bodies we inhabit, the subtexts of our relationships &amp; our selves. For each major publication, she celebrates with a new tattoo; someday she hopes to be completely sleeved  her skin a labyrinth of signifiers, utterly opaque. Find her at www.ckubasta.com.
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  ### One moment they were there…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Anna-marie Morgan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Anna-marie Morgan
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  
  [ Created with Vellum](http://tryvellum.com/created)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This one is for my readers,
  
  
  especially those who have read every book in the series.
  
  
  Thank you for your support.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Also in this series:](part0004.html#3Q280-d861c7ce64584bbdb2887e9d1055e79a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [The girl at the bus
  stop](part0005.html#4OIQ0-d861c7ce64584bbdb2887e9d1055e79a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [A tentative
  beginning](part0006.html#5N3C0-d861c7ce64584bbdb2887e9d1055e79a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3\. [Dread](part0007.html#6LJU0-d861c7ce64584bbdb2887e9d1055e79a)
  
  
  
  