Gone Astray

Dorie Winslow realized too late that she had completely missed the signs that something was seriously wrong with her daughter. A good mother, she chided herself, would have noticed. Even if that good mother were overworked, underpaid and frustrated by her overprivileged and undermotivated students at West Fork State, an institution better known for proximity to three Colorado ski resorts than rigorous academics.
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Susan Washburn (www.susanewashburn.com) lives in southwestern Colorado. Her past publications include a nonfiction book, Partners (Atheneum 1981) and My Horse, My Self: Life Lessons from Taos Horsewomen (Casa de Snapdragon 2015). She has contributed articles on the behavioral sciences to several national magazines as well as Psychology Today, where she was once an editor. Her poems and short stories have appeared in literary journals and her essays have been featured in The Broad Street Review. Susan has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.