If you find me

Description:

"She leaves us sittin' there, with the late-afternoon sun dapplin' the forest floor as if it's any other day. I watch her reach into the bin by the foldin' table, then walk back over. She hands me two of the shiny black garbage bags folded up like Mama's letter. I slip out from under Jenessa, balance her on the tree, and proceed to shake each bag into its full size. We all stop and watch the birds scatter into jagged flight at the unnatural sound of plastic slappin' the air." I can't leave my sister.

subjects: child abuse,  kidnapping,  teenager,  high school,  rape,  Sisters,  Foundlings,  Fiction,  Abused children,  Family secrets,  Young adult fiction,  Parental kidnapping,  Juvenile fiction,  Children of mentally ill mothers,  Selective mutism,  Siblings,  Children's fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Child abuse, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Tennessee, fiction,  Secrets,  Teen fiction,  Forests and forestry,  Survival,  Suspense fiction

Places: Tennessee