Sara adjusting a carburettor “My father said girls shouldn’t,” the boy said.
Sara eyed him. “Shouldn’t what?”
He squinted at her, the sun in his eyes. “Do men’s work.”
Sara sighed, cleaned her hands on a rag. “And why shouldn’t they?” It was not her job to set him straight, but what the hell, he seemed a smart.
He shrugged. “Said it’s not—tredditional. Wasn’t like that in the past.”
She smirked “Does your dad hunt mammoths? Because that’s what men did in the past.”
“He’s in insurances.”
“Then tell him to shut his trap. Or get himself a mammoth.” NOTE: this Imaginary Girl is dedicated to the 48% Italian males that think women should not have a job.
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Imaginary Girls: Lucy shows her true colors
One day it finally became impossible to go on. The charades, the innuendo, the social chess-playing, the holding up of appearances. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. The nasty ones had more fun, but must not show it. Be nasty, but look graceful. He wants to have the illusion that he is the one bringing out your bad side, like he was some kind of Libertine, while he’s just a poor boy that learned about women from comic books. One day Lucy gave up. She decided to tell them she had always been the evil one.
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The first issue of Twilight Echoes, featuring a reprint of my first Aculeo & Amunet story, Bride of the Swamp God.
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11 April 2018 at 19:53
This made my day, Davide 🙂 Shirley Jackson was already one of my favorite writers, this piece fits her style marvelously well. She was always pushing the envelope, and that is a very good trait indeed. Way ahead of her time, Jackson died far far too early. The mail sent to the New Yorker for publishing “The Lottery” and the mail sent to Shirley’s home in Vermont was phenomenal: much of it full of invective. Good on her!
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11 April 2018 at 21:59
Jackson is criminally underrated.
And she had style.
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