Samantha Edmonds
In the fading light, GIRL, an American student, stands in the grassy area of the CHAMP DE MARS park, staring at her camera.
Samantha Edmonds
Within a thirty-mile radius, the Butler County Fair is the pinnacle of summertime existence in the lives of young people. If you are a teenaged-Midwesterner, there is simply no place else to be on a Saturday night in July.
Samantha Edmonds
:a stock female character in films and novels
:a (psychotically) bubbly, delightful creature, silly and impulsive to the point of insanity, ecstatic to the point of mania
Robin Littell
I packed my bags and left the farmhouse in the middle of the night. The table was set with the only dishes I’d ever owned, chipped and faded thrift store bargains that sparkled like new in the moonlight shining through the kitchen window.
Robin Littell
I am a champion hula-hooper. I have ten trophies. I am close to setting the world record for keeping the hoop in motion longer than anyone on Earth.
Jeffrey Amos
Jacob covered the star with his thumb and imagined the sky without it. It was the one she made stand at the tip of her finger while they sat on the smooth stone together in the backyard the day of her diagnosis,
Samantha Atkins
The day after Anna’s ninth birthday, she was going to meet her grandparents for the first time. It was the first truly cold day of fall and the leaves were orange as fire