Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Petulant and studiously self-absorbed, the veneer of her youthful sophistication is dreadfully skin-thin. She poses and preens, expresses anguish that she is so little understood, sneers at her presumed detractors; adults who fail to take her histrionics seriously enough, finding no humour in their wryly fond observations about the Drama Queen.
Her response is revenge; swiftly unsubtle and arrogantly brutal. A child's mind in an adult image, struggling to find herself in a world hostile to her unearned expectations. She turns a cold eye, a haughty demeanor on all who dare to impugn her exceptionality; therein lies the kernel of her survival, she feels.
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