Hello Girls
by Brittany Cavallaro
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“Her train of thought broke off into a bunch of little toy trains and then raced off in different directions.”
“You looked like My Little Ponies auditioning at a glue factory.”
“Lucille had never seen mountains before, and it was increasingly hard for her not to gape over the steering wheel. There was a weird poetry to it, how the usual nail salons and Dress Barns and Save-A-Lots still existed despite the evidence of actual smashed tectonic plates behind them. There was a bite in the air she didn't associate with summer; summer meant mosquitos by the lake and trying to breathe through the pea-soup humidity. Not purple mountain majesty with a side of CHECK CASHING DELUX.”
“A sack of shit painted gold would only fool people for so long.”
“A giver who lived in the moral gray zone. Someone who did bad things for good reasons, who could only hurt one person if it meant saving another.”
“Lucille liked her body, her hips and her neck and her belly button, she liked her Baywatch hair and her blue eyes, but she hated the narrative that floated around it. That this body, the body she was born into, meant that she was perpetually Open for Business. Not just sexy business, but power business—dudes looking to put her in her place, to make her shut up so they could appreciate her better as the toy she should know herself to be.”
“I hate it when they do that. Hello, girls! Like we’re children. Like we’re the littlest of little girls in our prettiest princess costumes, and simultaneously hot and sexy ladies. We just robbed a clerk who couldn’t stop staring at your Child Boobs.”
“That’s what we do for our kids, isn’t it? We hoist the sun up into the sky for them every day until they’re old enough to do it for themselves.”
“They'd done something impossible and it had turned out to be quite easy. Winona had the startling realization that perhaps nothing was impossible.”
