Chicken Scratch

The Teenage Writing Site

Here's a piece I wrote last summer.  I'm still editing, and appreciate feedback! 

I don’t know where she came from. She just appeared one day, when I was about 7. I was sittin' in my bedroom, staring out the window towards Ol’ Widow Maggie’s manor as Momma braided my hair all pretty, with my favorite pink bow.

Old Widow Maggie’s place stuck out real bad on this side of town. It was all dark on the outside, because all the paint had w...