Picture Day
Apr 01, 2019
4 minutes
by Christina Robertson
Art by Jeffrey Ebbeler
text © 2019 by Christina Robertson, art © 2019 by Jeffrey Ebbeler
GENEVIEVE D’AMICO WOKE that morning feeling like something was supposed to happen.
Was it Saturday, pancake day? Were Nona and her cousins coming over? No, it wasn’t either of those things. Could it be her birthday? No, that wasn’t for sixty-two more days.
After some cereal with chocolate milk, she brushed her teeth, decided not to brush her hair, and went to her room to get dressed. Her shiny, puffy pink dress lay across her bed. Maybe it was her birthday.
“MOM!” she yelled, “IS IT MY BIRTHDAY?!”
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