Short story: Finally, by Caoimhe McKeogh

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Short story: Finally, by Caoimhe McKeogh

The summer was wonderful. Evie was wonderful, too; finally a teenager, finally worthy of long, hot days. She shaved her legs for the first time and bought cut-off shorts from the op-shop that made them look long. She got a Warehouse singlet so tight on her new shape that her dad said, “Did they paint that onto you?” She walked to the bakery in the afternoon heat. There was something adult about the smell of melted tarseal; smokey and oily like a…