Rock Bottom Girl

by Lucy Score

I’d land on my feet, dammit. Or at least my hands and knees.

“For being a shitty team player and having a craptastic attitude. Newsflash, you want to act like a jerk, do it at home to your parents who made you this way. Now, run.”

There was something nauseating about a hundred bodies simultaneously going through puberty in one room that already smelled like hot dogs and milk.

If you know what really happened, who the real heroes are, then you can go be better Americans. Because maybe we’re not the greatest country in the world. But we’ve still got potential. Our strength comes from our diversity, our willingness to change, to fight inequality, to explode scientific advancement.”

She was sneaky funny, and there was something a little sad about her. Both were my personal kryptonite when it came to women.