Jade Hidle

Jade Hidle is the proud daughter of a Vietnamese refugee. Her work has been featured in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Flash Fiction Magazine, Columbia Journal, and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network’s diacritics.org.

TO RIDER STRONG by Jade Hidle

You won’t remember me. It’s been twenty-nine years since my last letter.  I always did my homework alone, because my mother didn’t know enough English to help. I always finished it early, so that I could watch you on Boy Meets World. Your gapped-tooth mischievous grin, your chokers, your hair-flipping. I knew bad boys at school, but we didn’t have any like you. You were a white bad boy, which is a good bad boy. And you made being wounded look so cool.  I thought you would understand and that you would then elevate me to your level, turn my…

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