Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have
Author: Allen Zadoff
Publisher: Egmont
4½ out of 5 stars
The
stares bore into you from all directions like laser beams. It feels as if everyone is looking right at
you, judging you. How could they not,
you’re kind of hard to miss in the first place. You try to walk faster, but it’s difficult with
all of your fat weighing you down. It
feels as if you take up the entire hallway, and with every step the ground
trembles under your weight. You wish you
could just sit on everyone and crush them.
Then you wouldn’t have to deal with the names and cruel jokes that never
seem to end. But you know that’s not
going to work. So instead, you just take
a bite of your cookie, and keep on walking…