It made her sick, the way everything shone at that time, a luminous yellow, like the entire world was glowing. She put on her sunglasses disdainfully, a flawless pout of lipstick adorning her face, in an attempt to dim it all. The world remained relentlessly beautiful.
But why? It didn’t feel fair, the way even the cosmos demanded she look perfect.
Elizabeth Day is a writer who’s yet to meet a genre she didn’t like. She is a graduate of Southern Utah University with a bachelor’s degree in English education with a creative writing emphasis and double minors in theater and film. Along with publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in many journals and magazines, she is a regular contributor for the Hey! Young Writer blog and is most recognized for her work as a boy band scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Random Poetry, is out now. You can find her on Instagram @itsanadventur.
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