As my lopped head tips backwards off my neck and rolls off the bed,
The author's use of this twists makes reading the whole story worth it in a sense. There is no way to have predicted that ending unless you've heard the story before.
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- Sep 2020
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You shouldn’t touch it, I say. You can’t touch it.
I like how the author uses this point to begin building suspense for the reader. It may be a detail that some read and don't think twice about, but I instantly wanted to know more about the ribbon.
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The boy is not facing me. I see the muscles of his neck and upper back, how he fairly strains out of his button-down shirts. I run slick. It isn’t that I don’t have choices.
The author did amazing job using descriptive words to allow the reader to imagine the scene and what the boy looks like.
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