For this week’s assignment, I decided to read a few of the short stories located on the Bitter Southerner website. I began with the short story, “Maybe She Was”, by Jacob Melvin. Jacob described his experience of witnessing a seemly transgendered woman being picked on in an Alabama mall. A young teenager was dared by his friends to walk up to the woman and take a selfie with her. Everyone in the food court stared in disbelief. Jacob decided to approach the woman and tell her how brave and beautiful she was for coming to the mall dressed like this. The woman replied by asking him if he would like to have sex with her. This left Jacob pondering whether he had misjudged her also and that maybe she was a woman after all. That was a plot twist
