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I’ve been writing. Well, re-writing. Ten years ago, I finished a sprawling, 140,00-word beautiful mess of a novel. Beautiful because there’s so much of my early twenties enthusiasm in it — and bits of nice writing here and there. It’s an overflow of ideas — societal collapse and technology and magic and unexplained [...] Cabal Jamie and I, like most teenage girls, were plotters. A joint operation on the Pellicci brothers resulted in success only for Jamie, in the sense that after a few months of dating, the younger Pellicci broke up with her over the phone. That’s how these things go, I counseled her at the time. [...]
Grunge In the summer before my sophomore year, my best friend Jamie and I discovered grunge, god help us. I have to take some time here to write about Jamie because she was basically the most important person in my life from the ages of thirteen through sixteen. In adolescent years, [...] Gone with the Wind I’ve been trying to be breezy and not terribly analytic here because 1. Who wants to read an intense, psychologically probing account of the life of someone with no real problems? 2. I tend to over-think everything. I over-thought things in my freshman year of high school. I was [...] No Girl Is an Island (But Sometimes She Really Wishes She Lived on One) I take after my dad in that I tend to be stoic, introverted and reticent about talking about my feelings. I believe in each generation improving on the last, however, so I am only occasionally verbally abusive to household objects. [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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