There are other things too, little things that Stella can’t prove. This is my spot, Jasmine says, waving to the strip of shade where the other lounger waits. She steals Stella’s sun lounger the moment she gets in the pool. Jasmine knocks hard on the bathroom door whenever Stella’s in the shower. Stella suspects she’s only here to ensure that everyone has as difficult a time as possible. No one asked what it was that made Jasmine change her mind and join them. Claire had baked a lemon drizzle.Ĭake’s for children, said Jasmine. When they returned home, Frank announced that he’d booked three weeks in a villa on the smallest island in the Balearics, to make up for it.
For their honeymoon, Claire and Frank went to Costa Rica. Stella’s mother married Jasmine’s father in February. The cicadas sing in the background like a phone vibrating. Stella can’t think of anything good to say, and eventually Blue lets her ears slip under. Under her armpit, Stella notices a tangle of dark hair, slicked down like a clump pulled from the plughole.īlue pushes off into the water again, floating on her back with her head lifted. The girl is Blue, a friend of Jasmine’s from school. When she breaks the surface, she puts her arms on the tiled edge and rests her chin in the crook of her wrists. She swims the whole length without coming up for air. Underneath is the dark silhouette of a girl. On the surface of the pool, tiny blue waves ricochet out, the sun skittering off them. She watches the dots darken the paper as they sink in. Stella’s lying on a sun lounger, and then her book is wet. The award was won by Elena Barham, 19, from Barnsley for a story set in the 1940s, Little Acorns. Last year, the award was won by Lucy Caldwell for her story All the People Were Mean and Bad.Īlso announced today was the winner of the BBC young writers’ award with Cambridge University, an award created to inspire and encourage the next generation of short story writers. Each of the five shortlisted stories are available to listen to on BBC Sounds and have been published in an anthology. The other shortlisted stories were And the Moon Descends on the Temple That Was by Kerry Andrew Flat 19 by Jenn Ashworth Long Way to Come for a Sip of Water by Anna Bailey and Green Afternoon by Vanessa Onwuemezi. Speirs said the judges loved the “freshness and the spirit in the writing” and felt the story “brilliantly captures the nuances of blended family dynamics, the jealousies and stresses, the efforts and the rejections”. Joining Day on the judging panel were Costa first novel award-winning novelist Ingrid Persaud writer, poet and editor, Will Harris Booker prize shortlisted novelist and professor of creative writing, Gerard Woodward and returning judge Di Speirs, books editor at BBC Radio. Madeleine Feeny in her Guardian review called Send Nudes an “exhilarating collection” which “captures the light and dark of negotiating relationships, solitude, sexuality and loss”. “Blue 4eva engages with sexuality, too, particularly with queerness, in a subtle way that I found interesting to write.” “I’m always thinking about what it looks like to be a young woman: about bodies and power, about friendships and family, about the ways we’re constantly looking to break free,” Sams said. "Starting from the back of the section (near the crown of your head), and working your way to the front, in inch section increments, use a teasing brush to tease the root." You may not have to tease if your hair is already super textured - just push from the back end of the bump a bit forward and then clip it when it's at the height and shape you like.Sams drafted the story when she was 19 while studying creative writing at the University of Manchester, returning to it when she came to write Send Nudes a few years later. "Unclip the section and spray texturizing spray near the roots," says Rubenstein. Be sure the sides of your pony are slicked down with a pomade or a gel.
Clip it away for a second and then work on your ponytail, if you're gonna wear it with one. Just grab a triangular section of hair at the top front of your head, in line with the tops of your eyebrows, as hairstylist Clariss Rubenstein advises.
Beyoncé wearing the style in 2004, doing exactly what needed to be done! Getty ImagesĬonsidering how easy it is to execute the look, I'm kind of shocked that it hasn't been embraced in the way, say those little designer logo baguette bags (I hated those!) have been.
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