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Arvilla Fee

No Strings Attached

Your manic grin behind the brick façade, behind the curtains where you played your sick game—you jerked and pulled, commandeered each of my twisted limbs for the drama you designed. But little did you know how resourceful I was with scissors! One bone-chilling day in December when you flexed your fingers and snatched the crossbar that once tied me to your temper, I was gone!

I’m a real girl now
the one who got
away

About the Author

Arvilla Fee is married to an Air Force colonel and has four children. Military life has enriched her teaching and writing careers as she’s lived in five different states and visited several countries. With each new piece, she hopes her readers will wipe away tears, burst out in laughter, think critically about the world in which we live… or just say, “She gets me!”

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