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Weekly Contest #200
Nicki had always had long hair. Not always, of course. Not when she born. It’s not like that, not a mythical story of long hair. Nicki didn’t have an aversion to cutting her hair. In fact, she’d gotten it regularly trimmed. Every six months she’d go to the salon and go through the same charade. “Just a trim?” her stylist would say. “Actually…” Nicki would start twirling the ends of her hair, folding pieces in half, or pantomiming scissors near the top of her shoulder. “Yeah?” her stylist would squeal excitedly. “I’m joking. Just-” “A t...
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