THE EVOLVING CITY Kate Powell Shine SKATERS Swarming in a hive of Tyvek coated with white vinyl siding and honeycombed with glass rectangles, they slam wooden planks against the street, failed ollies piling up under scraped skin. A car growls up against them; the mob stares with fifteen- year-old haughtiness. The car snarls louder; you sound the horn. Cutting a sharp angle with his chin, one of them indicates: this parking space has been acquired. Kate Powell Shine has studied creative writing at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD and the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD. She is currently studying psychology in the the Human Sciences graduate program at Hood College in Frederick, MD. She is interested in the psychology of creativity and book binding, and spends too much time online. Published in Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2007.