Could You Be with Her Now

The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. Jen Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story. Combined with a Press 53 award-winning novella, this duo shows Michalski’s varying skills as a writer. Michalski also edits the online journal jmww, and runs a reading series in Baltimore, Maryland.