The grandmother figure in the story is an “artistic speaker” who performs in town but seems enigmatic to her own granddaughter. Over the course of the narrative, the granddaughter realizes that, far from succumbing to despair in old age, her grandmother is full of “young laughter that has found its way back to an old body.”

• University of Oklahoma/Puterbaugh Festival
• Kara Bannister
• Mia Koshansky
• Erika Burns
• Breanna Mitchell
• Ruby Mather
• Hanna Mayer
• Caroline Preskitt
• Laura Pratt