Forever Fifteen
by
Kimberly Steele
Forever Fifteen was born of a dream I had in 2002, a
dream that was part nightmare. I never intended it
to be anything but a short story, for I had never
completed even the shortest of stories unless forced
to in grammar school. But once I started, Forever
Fifteen seemed to fly out of me like a bat out of
Hell, virtually writing itself. It was finished by the
end of that year, each character having asserted itself
pronouncedly in my imagination.
Forever Fifteen’s characters can be seen proliferating
in any affluent suburb near you: the middle class
family struggling to survive in a uber-posh
neighborhood while supporting three kids, the
listless sixteen year old gifted student who decides
Nazi fashion is “cool” for a week, the over-involved
Ivy League bound kid next door, and the
remodeling-obsessed ice queen sadly more interested
in keeping up with the Joneses than with loving her
own family.
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