Amy Mackin is a Boston-based writer and MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Brain Child, Literary Mama, The Writer, and in other publications.Epoch
Four minutes. It’s long enough to make a grilled cheese sandwich or sort a week’s worth of laundry. It’s about the time given to a Little League pitcher for warm-up, before he tries his luck on the mound. It’s a stretch of short-lived tension that feels much longer to a teen driver...
