The Best Years of Your Life
A Good Women Story

A young woman who works admissions at a scam for-profit college is navigating the lies she sells for a living when she befriends an elderly applicant.
The Best Years of Your Life is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.