By the Time They Missed Me, I Was Gone

On the night college decisions arrived, the whole family gathered around my twin sister, Lily, and cheered her acceptance. My brother Ethan was the one holding the paper I had been waiting for, and the room made it clear where I stood. Left on the edges of my own family, I had to face how little my absence would register to them. The story follows a woman who refuses to stay small in a household that has already decided who matters.