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anthologies, books, creative nonfiction, nonfiction, reading, teens, writing, YA lit
If you’re a teen, or remember being a teen, love has to do with most everything, right? I’m honored to be included in this upcoming YA anthology, Love and Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life (available March 1).
Other authors include the talented Geoff Herbach, Carrie Mesrobian, and Trisha Speed Shaskan.
What is my contribution to this collection?
My essay features a necklace like this.
I guess you’ll have to wait to find out! In broad terms, it’s about the break up of a friendship in junior high, a not-uncommon story among young women.
Do you have a story like that?
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 
Congratulations! Ah, those teen years…when we thought we knew the meaning of the word “love.”
Of course we did!