My daughter Lily disappears into a cardboard box and emerges as a terrifying T-Rex. She attacks, roaring, and eager to eat me, her own human mother. Neighbors on the sidewalk observe us, me, an Asian woman and her child, playing chase in the yard. To them, we are plainly a pair. They don’t know I was raised by White parents, that I never matched anyone in my own family. Lily pauses and pulls me under the box with her. Our faces close together, she takes my hand. “I’ll be you, and you be me, OK?” she whispers. And we are.

Sara Streeter, or 한혜숙 Hea Sook Han, (she/her) is a transracially adopted Korean-American, relapsed interior designer, biological mother of two, and writer. Sara’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Micro Fiction. Website: sarajstreeter.com