Tag: girl

• Texting Harriet Greer

  Jordan Gregg moved in about a month before the end of the school year. Mom found the timing of The Gregg’s move the sort of odd that borders on downright scandalous, what with enrolling two kids at Glenville just weeks before summer break. I’d been at camp for half the summer and up at my…

  Dan Metzger

  August 28, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  adolescence, boy, bus, bus stop, class, creative writing, Fiction, game, girl, high school, phone, school, school bus, small town, smart phone, summer, teenager, texting

• Tall with Long Legs

  Tall with long legs. Long and smooth, running on for miles. Elegant and shear. She was dressing in a tee shirt, worn transparent with years. Skin showed through the fabric. When the lady spoke, her head lifted swiftly and he chin cut into the space where her floating words lingered. Her speech was confident. The…

  Dan Metzger

  April 10, 2014

  Fiction, Gallimaufry

  coffee shop, creative writing, Fiction, girl, jazz cafe

• The Goddess Who Lives on the Dirt Road off Route 12

  

  Every morning, on my drive to school, I see her waiting for the yellow bus to come and haul her off to St. Paul’s School for Girls. She wears a red and blue plaid skirt and a navy blue sweater vest because that’s what all the girls have to wear at that place. I drive…

  Dan Metzger

  June 25, 2013

  Character Sketch, Fiction

  art, country, country road, creative writing, dirt road, domestic violence, family, Fiction, girl, obsession, painting, young love