Top Ten Ways to Die
By Foxglove Lee
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When Jess’s dad dies unexpectedly, her world is turned upside-down. The only good things left in life are her girlfriend Tara and Kurt Cobain’s tortured grunge sound. But when a classmate attempts suicide, Jess goes into a downward spiral. Her mom is afraid she’s obsessed with death, and doesn’t want her hanging out with Tara or listening to Nirvana. What’s left for Jess in Hicksville if everything she loves is taken away?
Foxglove Lee
Foxglove’s fiction has been called SPECTACULAR by Rainbow Reviews and UNFORGETTABLE by USA Today!Foxglove Lee is a former aspiring Broadway Baby who now writes fiction for children, teens and young adults. She tries not to be too theatrical, but her characters often take over. Her debut novel, Tiffany and Tiger’s Eye, is set in the 80s and features an evil doll!
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© March 2017 by Foxglove Lee
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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Top Ten Ways to Die / by Foxglove Lee.–1st ed.
Summary: When Jess’s dad dies unexpectedly, her world is turned upside-down. The only good things left in life are her Goth girlfriend Tara and Kurt Cobain’s tortured grunge sound. But when a classmate attempts suicide, Jess goes into a downward spin. Her mom is afraid she’s obsessed with death, and doesn’t want her hanging out with Tara or listening to Nirvana. What’s left for Jess in Hicksville if everything she loves is taken away?
[1. Death & Dying—Social Themes—Young Adult Fiction. 2. LGBT—Young Adult Fiction. 3. Suicide—Social Themes—Young Adult Fiction.]
Top Ten Ways to Die
By Foxglove Lee
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One Tuesday morning in 1994, Jess McKinley collapsed halfway between the kitchen and the front door. She landed face-down on the floor, but managed to roll onto her back, clutching her chest, gasping for air.
She didn’t struggle long. It only took a few seconds before she lay motionless, flat on her back, staring up to the heavens.
This would have been the last view her father took in before shuffling off his mortal coil: a white popcorn ceiling, a few cobwebs, and a blaze of sunshine spilling in from the kitchen. If Jess had a choice, she’d prefer a tropical beach, bright turquoise waters, palm trees. A nice peaceful death. Just close those eyes and—poof!—gone forever.
Mom!
her little sister cried. Jess is being dead again!
Storming down the stairs in a suit from the 80s, her mother shouted, Get up off the floor, Jessica! You’re scaring Alexis.
No she’s not,
Alexis said. I just wanted to get her in trouble.
Jess could help smiling. You’re a class act, Rugrat.
Corpses can’t talk.
Jess burst out laughing, but her mother was not amused. Would you two quit it with all this death talk?
They stopped joking around. Their mom had already done her makeup for work and if she started crying now she’d have to wash it off and start from scratch.
And stop rolling around on the ground,
her mother went on. You’ll get your shirt all dirty.
It’s Daddy’s shirt,
Alexis said.
Yes I know it’s Daddy’s shirt,
their mom snapped. Jessica, haven’t I asked you to stop wearing your father’s clothes?
Jess sat up like a zombie. "Why should I stop wearing my father’s clothes?"
Well, for starters, they’re about fifty sizes too big for you.
"So what? How do you think you’re supposed to wear a plaid shirt?"
Her mother grumbled, Paired with a halter top and black jeans, if my daughter’s fashion sense is any indication.
This isn’t a halter top,
Jess bit back. It’s a T-shirt.
If I can see your belly button, it’s a halter top.
Jess tugged down the hem. There. Better?
The two-sizes-too small T-shirt popped back up, revealing a slice of midriff.
Go upstairs and change before the bus gets here. I don’t want the school sending you home again.
Alexis piped up to say, Jess’s school is run by fascists.
Alexis!
their mother cried. Where did you hear talk like that?
Jess scooped her school bag off the ground and slung it over one shoulder. "Oops!