Katie, with her excuses of being on her period during the week of swimming in gym classes and refusing to learn how to swim. Katie with her bloated, blue face when she fell off the dock at the lake and drowned before anyone realized she\u2019d slipped away in the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n Amy, with her firm disbelief in seatbelts and firm belief in speeding. Amy with her new high scores, going 90 in a 55, 100 in a 55, 120 in a 55, 140 into a tree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I miss those days when we all were friends, the three musketeers facing bark chip-chucking classmates, facing militant teachers, facing an adulthood that I thought the Eees would face together, that I now have to face alone.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Miss The Days Attalea Rose I miss the days when we all were friends. The Eees. Katie, Amy, and me. Making purple and pink braided friendship bracelets on Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6622,"featured_media":0,"parent":1301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3787\/revisions\/4213"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Woman](\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/IMG_0268-1-150x150.jpg\")
Attalea Rose<\/strong> (she\/her) is a fiction writer native to the Pacific Northwest, from the Midwest, and currently residing in the South where she is an undergraduate business student at the University of Alabama. Her short stories appear or are forthcoming in\u00a0The Marr\u2019s Field Journal, The Albion Review,\u00a0<\/i>Arachne Press\u2019\u00a0Byways Anthology,<\/i>\u00a0and others. She was the contest winner of\u00a0Periphery Journal<\/i>\u2019s 60th issue and the\u00a0Bumbledeer Award\u00a0winner of\u00a0Audeamus Journal<\/i>\u2019s Issue XVI. Her debut novella,\u00a0When the Flowers Breathe,<\/i>\u00a0was published by Red Rook Press in April 2023. She can be found on Instagram @attalearose.<\/span><\/p>\n