A figure skating prodigy, sixteen-year old Alivopro Doyle is one of a few hopefuls racing against nature's clock to try and jump and spin their way into the Olympics. But when a disastrous fall fractures two vertebrae, leaving Ali addicted to painkillers and ultimately institutionalized, it's t just her dreams of glory that get torn asunder, but the very fabric that holds her fragile family together.
Tracy O Neill is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. In 2012, she was awarded the New York City Emerging Writers Fellowship by the Center for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and many other places. She currently teaches writing at the City College of New York.