Life in a Fishbowl by Len Vlahos

Author:Len Vlahos
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681190365
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Jackie

It’s “under the radar,” Max. And why would we need to do that? Do you think people will really want to see our video?

Max

Solnyshko, do you not know that you are television star?

Jackie didn’t know how to respond. While she knew in her heart of hearts that Max was right, she didn’t want to admit it. But it was getting harder and harder to deny.

The week after the premiere aired, Jackie received a stack of mail that was more than fifty times the sum total of all the mail she’d received in her life.

“Fan mail,” the show’s producer had said when she dropped the stack on Jackie’s bed. It was heavy enough that it caused the comforter to wrinkle and bunch around it.

“For me?” Jackie asked wide-eyed.

“Of course it’s for you,” she answered.

Jackie moved the pile of mail, along with the five that followed it, to the floor of her bedroom closet, unopened, untouched. Now she wondered if she should read them.

When she was four, with her mother’s help, Jackie wrote a fan letter to Steve, the easygoing host of Blue’s Clues. She nearly fell over when she got not only a letter in response but an autographed photo of Steve, Blue, Tickety, and Side Table Drawer. Now that she was older, she realized that Steve hadn’t actually written the response; it, along with the photo, was a form letter. But it didn’t matter; for that one day in her four-year-old life, the world was perfect.

Jackie made a mental note to start going through the stacks of letters. Besides, she knew it would bore the director to tears to watch her open mail, and that meant Jackie would be largely out of the next episode.

She turned her attention back to Max.

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