Stories We Love: “The Carousel,” by Kim Henderson
by Emily Hoover
“[Henderson] invites us to this place like she might a sleepover between friends, sharing the stories of adolescent wonders and tragedies the way young girls share gossip.”
Emily Hoover is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University (NAU), teaching English Composition, and working on a linked short story collection about her home state of Florida. Her recent poetry publications include Potluck Magazine and FIVE2ONE Magazine, her fiction has appeared in TheNewerYork Press, The Flagler Review, and 0-Dark-Thirty, and she has a story, “Ghosts,” forthcoming in The Narrow Chimney Anthology.
“[Henderson] invites us to this place like she might a sleepover between friends, sharing the stories of adolescent wonders and tragedies the way young girls share gossip.”
