Kathleen Winter’s stories have appeared in Malahat Review, TickleAce, Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead and Pottersfield Portfolio as well as Geist. “BoYs” became the title story in her collection of short fiction, published by Biblioasis in 2007. She lives in Holyrood, Newfoundland, and here.
Derek Matthews has to be the ugliest boy in the class but I like him. I’ve liked every boy except Barry Pumphrey now. Barry Pumphrey likes me. He tried to kiss me on our step but I said I could see the roof rack on Dad’s car coming down Mountbatten Drive. Barry calls me Roof Rack now.
