Matthew Salesses was born in Korea and adopted at age two. He is the author of a novella, The Last Repatriate (Nouvella Books, 2011). His stories have or will appear in Glimmer Train, Witness, American Short Fiction, The Literary Review, West Branch, and others. He is a columnist and the Fiction Editor at the Good Men Project and is on the web at http://matthewsalesses.com and @salesses.
After my parents were divorced I fell in love with the ugliest girl in my white high school. This was what I believed—the love part, I mean; the ugly part was true.