So my sister sets me up with this girl who just got out of the loony bin. I’m not shitting you. Ginny is the girl’s name. A situation straight out of a horror movie. Except my sister says she’s a very nice girl who got screwed by life.
Anyways… we make a plan to meet near the sign outside the movie theatre.
And she’s not bad, thin with blonde hair in a perky pony. I wave and she waves. But then we get closer and she’s got these little stickers stuck to her face. A few on her cheeks and three across her forehead.
Peering closer I can read the really small letters and numbers on them. I’m wondering if they’re passes to get in and out of the loony bin— like they stamp your arm to get into a club.
She looks straight through me. “Fruit stickers, if you must know.”
“What?”
She taps her forehead reciting: “Lemon from Chile, Sun World Black Plum, and this was a 4038 California avocado.”
“You wear fruit stickers on your face?”
She smiles beatifically. “I only eat fruits and vegetables.”
“Yeah?”
I scratch under my T-shirt silently cursing my sister for setting me up with this sticker chick freak.
“Um. Do you think you could peel them off for the movie?”
She squints. “Why should I?”
It is a good question. I’ll give her that.
She’s waiting; her face looks hungry.
“I believe in meat,” I say.
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Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer and the author of 12 published books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent novel “Hair of a Fallen Angel” was released by Spuyten Duyil, NYC in early October. Check out the Official Video for this book on YouTube link: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqYriter
Tepper has also written 5 Stage Plays. www.susantepper.com
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