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Beneath Paper Cranes
"I have a tumor in my brain with a fancy medical name but I just like to call him Bob. It makes the whole dying young thing easier to deal with."
While other girls are preoccupied with graduation and prom, none of that matters to April. Thanks to the tumor growing in her brain stem, she's living on borrowed time. She'll eat the organic salad her Mom thinks will save her and put on a happy face for her best friend Chloe but April only has one thing to live for. She doesn't want to die a virgin.
So when cute swim team captain Ethan invites her to the woods one night, she'll go. Only sometimes knowing what you want and getting what you want can be two very different things.
This New Adult coming of age short story is approximately 22 pages long.
While other girls are preoccupied with graduation and prom, none of that matters to April. Thanks to the tumor growing in her brain stem, she's living on borrowed time. She'll eat the organic salad her Mom thinks will save her and put on a happy face for her best friend Chloe but April only has one thing to live for. She doesn't want to die a virgin.
So when cute swim team captain Ethan invites her to the woods one night, she'll go. Only sometimes knowing what you want and getting what you want can be two very different things.
This New Adult coming of age short story is approximately 22 pages long.
22 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 9, 2013
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About the author
Claire Svendsen
50 books69 followersClaire Svendsen was born and raised in England, which means she talks with a vaguely cool accent and drinks a lot of hot tea. Obsessed with horses almost before she could walk, Claire spent her summers dragging the old family typewriter into the garden where she would write books about a rich family giving her a horse. Though she would like you to think they were the masterpieces of a young prodigy, the truth is they never went much further than the first chapter and were awful.
Claire likes to think she can write a lot better now. She also finds writing this biography about herself in the third person both weird and alluring all at the same time. Claire now lives in Florida because she doesn't like cold weather and when she's not busy writing, you can find her hanging at the barn with her thoroughbred Merlin.
Claire likes to think she can write a lot better now. She also finds writing this biography about herself in the third person both weird and alluring all at the same time. Claire now lives in Florida because she doesn't like cold weather and when she's not busy writing, you can find her hanging at the barn with her thoroughbred Merlin.
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April 21, 2013
I want to know more
May 13, 2013
Not quite what I was expecting, but still an interesting story. Also, I love the cover. The colours are stunning!
I'd be curious to read another story by Claire Svendsen.
I'd be curious to read another story by Claire Svendsen.
October 27, 2015
Cortito, triste y profundo. Me gustó así tal cómo está.
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