<DIV><p>Broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a swamp, Ida Overdorff discovers the strange community around her?a millionaire living in a tree house, two feral child thieves. Ida clings to her dream of returning to New York while weathering storms both meteorological and emotional, and comes to understand that nobody's luck?even hers?is all bad.</p><p><B>Claudia Zuluaga</B>'s fiction has appeared in <I>Narrative Magazine</I>, <I>Lost Magazine</I>, <I>JMWW</I>, <I>Linnaean Street</I>, and the <I>Best of the Web</I> series. Zuluaga is a lecturer in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City.</p><BR></DIV>