Every week, our IndieInk Writing Challenge draws the most brilliant and imaginative writers who craft the most creative and interesting posts — and many of these submissions just knock the editors’ collective socks off. And so, the editorial staff decided to get together and select one submission weekly to feature as our “Editors’ Choice.”
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When Emily gets home from practice after school, her father tells her,
“Your friend with the phone-sex-voice called.” She laughs, because it
is a ridiculous thing for a father and a high school teacher to say;
ridiculous, but not surprising. Since Emily was eleven, he has let her
read his Playboy, because the articles are “really good”; but Emily is
not allowed to go out with boys until she is sixteen — that wouldn’t
be appropriate. Read more
It’s all in the way she holds her eyes. She used to, she—I used to say: stop daring at me. You couldn’t make her cry if you stabbed her with a fork.
I hold her. I touch her hair. I tell her it will be ok and I’ll get her things. I make her soup and deliver her into the comfort of the couch and music and I grab my keys and on the way out the front door, I reach into the closet and get her brother’s baseball bat. Read more
I remember she rode the bus to and from school with me my freshman year of high school. Freshman year. High School. That time in most of our lives when our main priority is to belong, when the survival-of-the-trendiest mentality pushes against anyone who swims upstream whether they do so by chance or by choice. And even though in her case it was by chance–genes, biology–she was so…different. Read more
She had long black hair with blond streaks I once spent three hours trying to coax out of her nearly impossible mane as we sang cheesy 80s music on an abnormally hot spring day.
She had dark brown, almost black eyes; they smiled and shone warmly on her good days, yet hid the pain and suffering she felt everyday. Read more
Awesome!!! L-O-V-E-D it :) February 9, 1:00 pm by Carrie
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