Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Author:Joyce Carol Oates
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780061756221
Publisher: HarperCollins

EIGHTEEN

TRUCULENT. I LOOKED UP THE WORD IN THE dictionary and it meant what I’d thought it meant.

I liked the sound of it, too.

Ugly Girl, truculent warrior-woman.

I saw Matt Donaghy in homeroom and in our class. He didn’t smile and call out, “Hi, Ursula!” any longer. He didn’t seem to talk to many people any longer. He didn’t smile much. When Mr. Weinberg asked his enigmatic questions, Matt didn’t quickly raise his hand to answer as he used to. I felt bad about this, and I could tell that Mr. Weinberg felt bad too. It’s like Matt was fading away, in our presence. I’d heard about him resigning his class office and quitting the school newspaper, and he sat by himself at lunch instead of with his old clique, or didn’t have lunch at school at all. I wanted to talk to him but didn’t know how. My mouth went dry, my heart hammered just at the thought. Hi Matt. How are things going . . . ? It was all so banal and predictable, I just couldn’t. Ugly Girl scorned idiotic small talk.

Especially with a guy.

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