first 2 pages of fiction - not sure where it will go...
Everyone is Black by Maggie Hess Sci fi main characters – Marmalade, Crow, September, Laughlin, King Belch, Charlie The loneliest thing in the world is a school with a No Blacks sign at every turn, and you the only black person you know. At least no one seems to notice my skin color, which perplexes me every day, and scares the heebee geebees out of me. Going to this school is like being tortured, although I probably shouldn’t say that, since I could be tortured in reality if King Belch knew I was black. See my skin is the color of milk chocolate, everyone acts like it is the color of a pale peach, so I guess no one knows that I am black, and if they knew what would happen to me? I see in the news people getting thrown in jail and even killed for having dark skin. So I guess you might understand why I am feeling lonely because I am the one person I know who has dark skin, and no one talks to anyone in this world where I live. But it isn’t the fear t...