Jacqueline Kharouf is currently working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A native of Rapid City, South Dakota, Jacqueline lives, writes, and maintains daytime employment in Denver, Colorado. In 2009, she earned an honorable mention for the Denver Woman’s Press Club Unknown Writer’s Contest, and in 2010 she earned third place for that contest. In addition, Jacqueline blogs at: jacquelinekharouf.wordpress.com; tweets holiday appropriate well-wishes and crazy awesome sentences here: @writejacqueline; and would perform a small jig if you liked her Facebook professional page at: Jacqueline Kharouf, writer. This is her first published story.