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Weekly Contest #359
Dear Sam, Everything is ruined, and I blame the blue eyeshadow. It started last week. I knew Tilly took my eyeshadow. I knew it! I swear, sometimes I can feel her scheming. Was I this evil when I was a kid? The answer is no. Sometimes I wonder if we’re even related, and then she’ll make that wrinkly face Dad does or laugh like Mom and I know we are. Maybe I’m the one that’s secretly adopted. It would explain a lot. But that’s not relevant. The important thing is that I knew she’d taken the eyeshadow, but she wasn’t wearing it. Which was weir...
Weekly Contest #357
September 15th, 1993Bacon sizzled on the pan as Cyndi Lauper sang, and Charlie tried to keep her hands from shaking. Girls Just Want To Have Fun. It was Mom’s favorite, which she knew because it was the only one she’d sung along to at homecoming while she danced with the teachers. Everyone always glared at Charlie for that. It wasn’t her fault that Principal Wig had a taste for divorcees with too much makeup, and Mom hadn’t turned down a man since 1985. Oh girls, they wanna have fun. They were bullshit lyrics anyway. Mom hadn’t had fun in ye...
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