Not all that inspired but only required a third of the allotted 90 minutes to complete. Don’t worry if you get lost in who’s saying what. The speakers are basically interchangeable so I didn’t care so much about dialogue tags.
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“This oughta be good. Guy’s three seconds ahead of world record pace with only another hundred feet to go when he loses control, skis off course and into a tree. Died on impact. This was just a practice run for his race tomorrow.”

“Oooh, so close.” Continue reading →

Who knew a pilfered lip gloss could lead to war? Certainly not Jezzy St. Claire or Mina Lawrence. Had they known, perhaps they’d have found a way to compromise earlier.

Jezzy and Mina started the school year as best friends. They’d been that way since the third grade when a frightened Mina enrolled mid-year after her parents divorced.

Maybe Mina had slept wrong the night before, maybe her panties had ridden up one too many times, or maybe the whole wheat cereal she’d eaten for breakfast had triggered a food allergy that caused irrational reactions. No one knows exactly why Mina said “no” when Jezzy asked to borrow her lip gloss, but she did. Most believe, however, that Mina and Jezzy both wanted the same boy, Carlton Catana, and the lip gloss had become the secret weapon that both thought they needed. Continue reading →