REBECCA T. GODWIN is the author of the novels Private Parts (Longstreet Press) and Keeper of the House (St. Martin’s Press). Her fiction has appeared in Paris Review, Crescent Review, South Carolina Review , Carve, Epoch, and elsewhere. She lives in Eagle Bridge, New York, and teaches at Bennington College.

Elopement

by Rebecca T. Godwin, October 2004 (Issue 346)