Jen Stam

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“The King of Summers” by Jen Stam

Submitted to Contest #99

Willow wasn’t my first choice of name for the chestnut Thoroughbred that came to our farm in the summer of 1993, but my mother was insistent. In her eyes, it was an attempt to honor her late mother - my grandmother Willow - and in some small way, fulfill Grammy’s lifelong wish of owning a horse.  My young, pretween brain wasn’t capable of articulating the pain I felt at the mere mention of Grammy’s name though and, since we weren’t the kind of family that talked about feelings or emotions (unless we were swooning gleefully over the am...

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