Questions

by Susan Gravely

Why did she have to be named Adams?

Why couldn’t she have been a Sanderson or a Wilder or a Yost?

Why did the rooms have to be assigned alphabetically?

Why did the moon have to be full?

And why did the entrance to this wing of the dorm have to . . .

Her thoughts were interrupted by the click of Mrs. Sneider’s claws on the tile hallway.