Ellie Forgotson  

Ellie Forgotson

Latté Contributor

Ellie Forgotson has lived in Amherst, Boston, Utah, California, France, Wisconsin and New York City. This is her first published story under her new married name. Previous to her marriage, she won the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and The Raymond Carver Award.

Contributions by Ellie Forgotson

July 1999 Issue

Life During Wartime

Summer in New York City. Year of our lives 1997. About eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit. On Clinton Street, a teenage boy slams his fist into a chain link fence and shouts at his girlfriend: “You ain’t nothing, bitch! You show me some respect!”