Skeleton Dance

"My grandmother wanted to kill me..."

So begins a dark and disturbing look into a world that is all too real for thousands of children every day. “Skeleton Dance” is the story of one young girl’s perseverance in surviving the eccentricities of her grandmother. Despite being harassed in a multitude of ways, this young girl is able to stand up to her grandmother in both small and grandiose ways. Sometimes victorious, but more often not, she ultimately grows into a woman faced with the biggest challenge yet: Follow the well-worn path of the matriarchs in her family or strike out into virgin territory.

2014 winner of the Vermillion Literary Project Short Story Contest.