Aug 5, 2024 | A Day In My Life
I can’t believe I’ve been in Fresno for three months already! Back in July, I packed up my life after losing my book contract and my roommate, and moved to Fresno to live with my cousin P.I. Stephen Carlucci until I could figure out what to do with the rest of my...
Aug 2, 2024 | A Day In My Life
They called me reckless. But I was more like a wrecking ball and it was intentional. I get into stuff as a sort of punishment for mistakes of my past like what happened to Daddy back then, and the dumpster fire I left Mama and my little sister Pen to deal with when I...
Aug 1, 2024 | A Day In My Life
I hope you don’t think this is too forward. But, for goodness sake, this is 1908, and I think jumping in and introducing myself is quite acceptable. Although I know my mother and father would not approve. Regardless, my name is Myrtle Vanhoff, and my parents are...
Jul 31, 2024 | A Day In My Life
Occupation: Editorial Assistant Dear Ms. St. Clair, I just wanted to tell you how much The Secret of Wyldcliffe Heights means to me. I read it for the first time when I was fourteen and it saved my life. I’d never felt like someone really saw me until then, and...
Jul 30, 2024 | A Day In My Life
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway…but in our little costume shop the Eastbrook Playhouse, my day can be derailed by a feather. More accurately, three genuine ostrich feathers dyed a vibrant crimson for Dolly Levi’s headdress. But we saw to our horror,...
Jul 26, 2024 | A Day In My Life
I was left at the altar. There, I said it. I wish I didn’t find it so embarrassing. Wish it didn’t hurt so much, all these months later. Wish I could say I was handling it well, but I’m not. It feels like everything around me has changed. Or maybe, I am the thing that...
