Caroline Porter

Caroline Porter is a fiction writer from Georgia. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where this story received a Hopwood Award. She is the recipient of a Henfield Prize and a summer fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. You can find her writing in The Greensboro Review. Get in touch at carolineroseporter.neocities.org.

MUTUAL by Caroline Porter

Amelia-Rose followed first. She even had the audacity to message Francis afterwards, as if following real life acquaintances on Tumblr was normal. Hi Francis! It’s nice to see someone else who is as online as me lol. xoxo—AR  Francis freaked, of course. She couldn’t picture Amelia-Rose as a fellow Columbiner, not even as one of the fangirls exclusively in it for horny reasons: the ones who posted crime scene photos of Eric’s body captioned idk hes kinda cute without his face, who posted drawings of a shirtless Dylan Klebold, passably rendered in ballpoint pen—not that Francis thought there was any…

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