The Distance of the School
Erica N. Southall
I made an arrangement to ride with my son’s dad every Friday to pick him up at 3:45p.m.
from the charter school that he attends. Since I don’t have a car, I walk a few blocks through the
neighborhood to get to his house. Now, this area is not the best for a young woman to be walking
through alone, even at 2:30 in the afternoon in broad daylight. Not even while visibly carrying a
crowbar and a shotgun, while walking a one hundred po V