SAMANTHA SCHOECH spent portions of her childhood on a commune in northern California, at a meditation center in Vermont, and in a fishing village in Mexico. She now lives in San Francisco with her husband and their dog. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and the Gettysburg Review, and she is currently working on a novel about some of the characters in her story "Dances."

Dances

by Samantha Schoech, February 2003 (Issue 326)