Unpretty: An Unloved Ones Prequel - Plot & Excerpts
I’ve spent the afternoon napping and avoiding my mother. But then when waking up at dinnertime, I see the empty cupcake wrapper on my nightstand, and I remember: I wish I were thin. I drag myself out of bed and make my way to the dinner table. I avoid eye contact, and dish out a portion of food for myself. We’re having fast food: fried chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy. I poke at the potatoes with a plastic fork. “Something wrong with the food?” my mom asks, startling me. My eyes dart up to see her staring at me. She’s wearing her glasses again instead of her contacts. Her eyes must be bothering her. “I’m not feeling so well,” I say. I force myself to take a small bite of the mashed potatoes, but I nearly gag. They taste so… unnatural. It’s like I can taste each individual freeze-dried flake, stale and soaked with unfiltered tap water. I cringe. I try a chicken wing, but the crispy fried coating tastes waxy and hollow. The flesh of the chicken itself is better than the potatoes, but—and I don’t know how I know this—I can taste that it’s been killed some time ago, and that its flesh has been frozen.
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