Deborah Mead has published stories and poems in Main Street Rag, StoryChord, and Iodine Poetry Review. Her collaborative poetry chapbook, Topless, was published by Main Street Rag a few years ago. Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and Disney's FamilyFun magazine. She lives in Needham, Massachusetts.
It’s Emilie who spots it first, a baby turtle, motionless at the end of the cul-de-sac. She almost misses it entirely, dusted as it is with the dry ...
