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My contribution to this collection of short stories edited by Michael Cart is called Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. It's a story about a fourteen year old girl named Sasha, who has an "evil sister" who makes her life miserable.
Here is a poem from Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde:
Lucy's chasing me down the hall again, like a fire-breathing dragon, hands clawing the air at my back, calling me words I've never even heard before.
I'm swallowing a scream, racing through my bedroom towards my bathroom door, shoving it open, ducking inside,
slamming it hard behind me, and fumbling at the lock with stuttering fingers, till I somehow manage to snap it into place.
Now I'm leaning against the door, while Lucy slams her fists into the other side, my heart fluttering in my throat like a trapped bird.
I'm sliding down onto the cold tiles and reaching behind the hamper to find the book that I keep hidden there for whenever she has me cornered like this, wondering how soon our parents will get home.
She never hits me in front of them.
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