Crimes of the Sarahs (31 page)

Authors: Kristen Tracy

BOOK: Crimes of the Sarahs

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The day I started my junior year, I woke up worrying about the size of my feet. Once dressed, looking at myself in my full-length bedroom mirror, they struck me as incredibly long and boatlike. I squished them into a pair of shoes I’d worn in eighth grade, brown suede loafers. They pinched, but gave my feet the illusion of looking regular-size instead of Cadillac-size. Then I noticed a newly risen zit. Of course, under the cover of darkness, it had cowardly erupted in the center of my forehead. I held back my brown bangs and popped it. Then I dabbed the surrounding area with a glob of beige-colored Zit-Be-Gone cream.

I started the first day of my junior year of high school zitless and basically happy. I was sixteen and feeling good. I didn’t have any major issues. Okay, that’s not entirely true. For weeks I’d been growing increasingly concerned about Zena Crow, my overly dramatic best friend. She’d been going through a rocky stretch and had been talking incessantly about building a bomb. Not a big bomb. Just one that was big enough to blow up a poodle.

Kristen Tracy
grew up in Idaho and has lived in many other places since, including Kalamazoo, Michigan. (She never committed any crimes while she was there.) She now lives in San Francisco, where she is busy writing and also not committing crimes. Her poems have received three Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared in numerous literary journals. She coedited
A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women
(University of Iowa Press). She has a PhD in English from Western Michigan University.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.