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    The Glass Girl
    The Glass Girl
    The Glass Girl
    Ebook31 pages20 minutes

    The Glass Girl

    By Leah Cutter

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    Sakura considers herself an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in Tokyo, Japan, concerned with boys, school work, and family.

    Then the extraordinary happens, and her body starts transforming into glass.

    What does it mean? Why her? And what is she supposed to do now?

    Originally published in "Fiction River: Editor's Choice."

    "Surprisingly deep urban fantasy"--Tangent Online review of "The Glass Girl"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateFeb 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386644255
    The Glass Girl
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    Leah Cutter

    Leah Cutter--a Crawford Award Finalist--writes page-turning fiction in exotic locations, such as New Orleans, ancient China, the Oregon coast, ancient Japan, rual Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, Budapest, etc.  Find more fiction by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com. Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.

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      The Glass Girl - Leah Cutter

      The Glass Girl

      The Glass Girl

      Leah R Cutter

      Knotted Road Press

      Contents

      The Glass Girl

      About the Author

      Also by Leah R Cutter

      About Knotted Road Press

      The Glass Girl

      Leah Cutter

      URRRRGGGGH! That Daiki thinks he’s so special. Just because he’s cute and smart and …

      Who am I kidding? He is that special. And me? I’m just this girl.

      Sakura leaned back against her desk chair with a sigh, throwing her pen down on her journal. She didn’t have a chance with Daiki. Or Shou. Or any of the other boys.

      They were always too involved with their stupid video games and their basketball and their phones. They would never even notice a shy girl like her. She was as mousy as Kaori, one of her favorite anime characters.

      At least Kaori was smart. And could win at Mahjong just by glancing at the board. While Sakura had to study and work hard at her grades. There was no magic spirit horse to ride away on, no matter how she might try to transport herself into the posters that covered her walls. No magical cat bus to take her away from the hustle of Tokyo and out into quiet green hills.

      Sakura sighed and pushed her journal to the side, reaching for her school books.

      Wait. Gross! What was wrong with her hand?

      Sakura held up her right hand. It had changed. Instead of flesh, it had transformed into glass, along with her wrist and half of her forearm.

      Not smooth glass, no. From her knuckles grew sharp ridges down the back of her hand. Other ridges joined them, from her thumb and down her

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