The Missing Girl

A driver lures a young girl into his car. A woman recalls a not-so- innocent childhood game. A high school girl is murdered. A girl speaks up after a crime— but is she telling the truth? In Jacqueline Doyle’ s collection of flash fictions THE MISSING GIRL, the voicelessness of the missing is palpable, the girls’ stories whispered into a vacuum or recounted from the point of view of a predator, murderer, or voyeur. Violence lurks below the surface here, haunts the back pages of newspapers, takes up residence in your dreams. You know a missing girl.
“ In these dark and edgy stories, Jacqueline Doyle has made a dispassionate study of the degradation of girls and the twisted hearts of those who harm them. … Prepare to be very disturbed.” -Elizabeth McKenzie
“ Mesmerizing and unforgettable.” -Meg Tuite

Jacqueline Doyle has published flash, short stories, and essays in Wigleaf, CRAFT, New World Writing, The Gettysburg Review, EPOCH, Catamaran Literary Reader, Fourth Genre, and many anthologies. Her flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl won first place in the Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. One of her flash was featured in Creative Nonfiction’ s “ Sunday Short Reads,” two were long listed in the “ Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions", and nine of her essays have been awarded Notable Essay citations in Best American Essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find her online at www.jacquelinedoyle.com