Girl Fight
Keywords
creative nonfiction, body image, peer pressure, adolescent relationships
Abstract
Marty Manzoni’s mother was fat. We all knew it, and we all knew better than to ever mention it, but that day in the school hall before basketball practice we were waiting for Coach to show up, and we got to talking about girls, as boys do, and someone mentioned Heather, a girl with sandy blond hair who carried her bulk around on ballerina tip-toes and told me just yesterday, above the noise of the bus, that she liked me—a girl with whom, against my better sixth-grade-judgment, I had secretly agreed to “go out.”
Marty Manzoni, whose mother we all knew was fat, had been bouncing a ball in the hallway when he turned to me, smiling.
Original Publication Citation
Franklin JC. 2014. "Girl Fight". Brevity Magazine.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Franklin, Joey, "Girl Fight" (2014). Faculty Publications. 10150.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/10150
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Brevity Magazine
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
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