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LJ Idol Week 4: Impossible
Hope wasn’t a little kid anymore as her 14th birthday neared and this wasn’t her first child welfare case, though she wasn’t allowed to attend the hearings themselves until she was twelve; she knew it would be difficult because she hadn’t seen her mother in months, but she still hadn’t anticipated the gut-punch she felt when her mother entered the ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 3: Everything Looks Like a Nail
The chair scraped along the floor as the detective sat down across from her. He cleared his throat. “So, what happened?”
She didn’t know where to begin. She didn’t even know if she knew where it had begun; it certainly hadn’t always been this way.
“Did he...do something to you?” he urged.
While it was true that he had never laid a hand on her, the ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 1: Resolution
When I was pregnant, I sat my parents down in my living room and I laid out my expectations for once Aurora was born. There was no do-over for my sister and I, but they got another chance with Aurora and, goddammit, they were going to do better. Truly, I felt a little silly sitting across from the two people who raised me to explain to them how ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 0: Introduction
Ken and Annette’s first-born child. Sacha’s older sister. Roberto’s wife. Aurora’s mother. I may currently be your child’s English teacher, but I may also have been your child’s math teacher last year; either way, I’m the woman writing the lengthy IEP nobody bothers to read.
The woman with the long auburn hair that’s touched up every six weeks ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: I'm in!
I've been interested in participating in LJ Idol before, but I've always been too afraid. Now don't get me wrong, I'm still absolutely terrified, but I'm beginning to feel more fearful of the things I continue to want to do yet still avoid ( Read more... )