GLEAH POWERS

Souvenir, A Journal, Fall 2013

Lucky Streak

After their weekend honeymoon in Las Vegas, my mother and Jack came to pick us up from Long Scraggy Mountain Ranch Camp for Girls in Buffalo Creek, Colorado. My sister, Kimberly, and I had spent a month there weaving key chains and bracelets out of strips of colored plastic, swimming in Buffalo Creek, and riding horses named Duke and Pepper through forests of shimmering silver dollar Eucalyptus trees…

This story is now part of my memoir, Million Dollar Red.