Sunday Serial: 280 x 70, 50 Blue, by Gill James, vodka

Introduction

This collection is a collection of seventy stories, each 280 words. They were inspired by the first picture seen on my Twitter feed on a given day. 

50. Blue

 A girl with a tear flowing down her cheek looked at her from the mirror. A badly bruised girl. On auto-pilot she applied foundation and blusher to her cheeks and curled her lashes with her mascara. She was presentable again. 

Who was this girl? Was she the one who had fallen in love with Tony? She closed her eyes as she remembered being in his arms. He'd held her tenderly and she'd thought he'd loved her too.

But no. It had all been about sex. He'd pushed her and pushed her until she'd given in. It had been more like rape, really, only she couldn't prove that. It had hurt.  And then he'd lost interest in her and started seeing another girl.

The little white powder had been such a comfort. There was first of all the thrill of getting it. The risk, then success, and finally the euphoria. But it was too expensive and it was getting too dangerous. She'd got to come off it now. And that was miserable.

She opened her eyes again.  The young woman staring back at her looked all right. She knew otherwise though. Here was a complete loser. Somebody who would just nor get anywhere. Someone who hadn't got the guts to live life to the full without some chemical help.

The door to the bathroom was suddenly flung open.  "We did it Jess." It was her bestie, Pam.

"We did? Which scenes?"

"All of them."

Wow.  Perhaps she wasn't so bad after all. It would look really good on her CV. Even if she was only an extra this time, it was for one of the most prestigious soaps for young people.            

About the author

Gill James is published by The Red Telephone, Butterfly and Chapeltown.  

She edits CafeLit and writes for the online community news magazine: Talking About My Generation.

She teaches Creative Writing and has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.    

http://www.gilljameswriter.com  

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