Dairy Queen

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

What happens when you are a 15-year-old girl in Wisconsin on a Dairy farm where your father gets hurt and can’t work the farm? You work the farm and you don’t complain about it because it wouldn’t change anything anyway. There is no point to even having your own hopes and dreams because there is not time to fulfill them. Your mom works 2 jobs and has a big secret, your younger brother never opens his mouth, and your older brothers are at college and won’t even call home. Well if you do make the decision to talk about it, who would even hear you or care. Still, it wouldn’t change anything. Would it?

Melissa