Lauren Hohle

Lauren Hohle has had stories and essays appear in Santa Monica Review, Black Warrior Review, The Sun, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and other journals. She’d like to cite, and thank, Sarah Marshall of the podcast You’re Wrong About for first saying versions of the lines, “she may have been perfect because she was missing” and “fear of one man would only result in control by another,” which have been loadstars of “Missing Girl” through its many revisions.

Fiction – Issue 37

Missing Girl

An uprooted stalk dangled from one hand, pink and fleshy, slender as a neck. A thrill bloomed in Hannah’s chest. Rhubarb, she thought, and she became excited in spite of herself, in spite of knowing better (because of it?), that they should never rip plants from the garden.