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Submitted to Contest #230
I. “Your favorite novel is Lolita?” I don't miss the way her lips tug down disdainfully. I shrug, speaking around the lollipop in my mouth. “One of many.” “Right.” The look in her eyes tells me she doesn’t believe me, and it sets me on edge. As a matter of fact, everything about this posh, preppy princess of a girl makes me want to gouge my own eyes out with a soup spoon. She rolls her lip under her teeth before speaking. “Have you ever been down to the lake?” I roll my eyes because everyone has been down to the lake, but h...
Submitted to Contest #179
Nellie extends her hand toward me, a magazine clipping of Joshua Bassett between her index and middle fingers. She’s making a face–her nose scrunched up over strawberry-glossed lips that purse when she asks, “This is your celebrity husband? The guy you want to bring into the new year with you?” I quickly draw a square around the perimeter of the photo with a glue stick before going back in and filling the middle with more glue. I roll my eyes, unable or unwilling to talk around the bottom of the glue stick between my teeth as I proces...
Submitted to Contest #178
You can do this. I rub my hands together, generating heat. I let a long sigh drag out against them, convincing myself I need another minute to acclimate to the cold. The snow falls in fat, dissimilar flakes around myself and the beige-brown double-wide in front of me. Though the blinds are shut, light filters through all six windows of the house–I checked. As a matter of fact, I looked for every possible excuse not to make my way up the rickety porch steps and stand outside this door, with its chipped white paint exterior, on Christmas Eve.&...
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