: About Me

My passion is ...

my family.

I know too much about ...

too many things.

My parents always told me ...

Never eat anything bigger than your head.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become a teacher. Or a truckdriver.

My favorite memory ...

are any that involve our family trips to the Deep South.

Why I write ...

to empty my buckethead.

My first job ...

was a paper route.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Having a bad day

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"Jen, wait, this is stupid," I said. "Come on, Becca, nothing's going to happen." Next thing I knew we were in mom's car, leaving the Dixon Mall, now driving through the residential neighborhoods of Dixon. I had walked out of the main entrance of the mall just as Jen pulled up in our mom's minivan. Jen was always like this, always taking risks, always taking chances, always pushing the boundaries, the limits. I remember dad saying the first born child was the risk taker, the one who tested the limits of the parents. The first born was the child who blazed the trail for the younger siblings...

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