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"ALL DOLLED UP"

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"ALL DOLLED UP"

By Sandy Thomas

99 to 100. The Blazers were behind the Lions with only 8 seconds on the clock. The tension filled the air as the Blazer captain Bill Johnson called the last time out in the final game of the State College Championship. Every six foot plus player's eyes went to the board as if the clock might make an extra click or maybe they could stare it into stopping faster.

I'm that captain.

This is terrible. This creative writing fiction term paper is due in two days and I can't seem to think of anything to write about except the big game. The problem is that I can't believe what really happened!

You should have heard the roar of the crowd when the coach...

No...No. This has to be fiction. The teacher said good fiction comes from what you know best, things around your life. But I've grown up in this small town. I haven't ever seen a star in person or anything. What can I write about? Neighbors? My sister? Our town?

Well, it's a small town. Thirty-two hundred people. Everyone knows everyone. My father died in an auto wreck nine years ago, so my mother opened a beauty shop in town. It was tough for a couple years but now we have about everything we want.

I could write about high school and those years? Yeah, that's it!

First, my sister is called Lilly, short for Lillith. Her name means "evil woman" in Hebrew. She was two years older and going to beauty school to work in the beauty shop with my mother. My mother was very busy socially, so she was gone most of the time when not working.