Treasure Island!!!

needed to bring a phobic, geographically challenged driver to a safe anchorage upon St. Vincent’s shores. I put the car into park and waited for the heat to kick in while I studied it. There was a big red X on the drawing of the hospital (which she’d rendered with surprisingly thoughtful detail, including cafeteria and parking). There was a star on our house next to which my mother had written:
You are Here
.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
     
    Thanks of every coinage to my bold, but kind, agent Emily Forland, my sharp and fearless critic Jennifer Ruth, my early reader Janet Desaulniers, and my late and crucial reader James McManus. Moidores and sequins to Carol Anshaw. Doubloons and double guineas to Alice Sebold. A gold piece bored through the middle to wear around the neck to Chris Gaggero. And for Judith Pascoe, who sailed with me the whole way, the vast, uncountable heap.
     

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
     
    Sara Levine teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared in
The Iowa Review,
Nerve
,
Conjunctions
,
Necessary Fiction
,
Sonora Review
, and other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, a Special Mention in
The Pushcart Anthology
, and three citations in
The Best American Essays
. Her writing has been anthologized in
Best of Fence: The First Nine Years
and
The Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present
.