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Spectacle

Name: Spectacle
Author: Angie McCullagh
ISBN: 9780985033019

by Angie McCullagh

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Overview

At six feet tall, Emily Lucas towers over the "normals" in her Seattle high school. When she discovers, thanks to a pediatric endocrinologist and his X-ray machine, that she’s still growing and will likely hit six foot three, she struggles with her inability to blend.

Emily blames her MIA, giantess mother, Marilyn, for her excessive height and embarks on a mom-quest to find her. She wants to unravel why Marilyn left and learn how to operate as a super-sized person in the world. So begins a journey that leads Emily to Arizona to meet her birth mother.

Then there's Emily's ex-best-friend-gone-wild, Trix. She has an attitude that won’t quit, two non-parents who don’t take care of her as much as she takes care of them, and a tendency to hook up with too many guys in her search for acceptance.

When she finds out she has a chance to graduate early and study her passion–fashion design–at The Art Institute, she realizes she needs to pull herself out of her downward spiral and focus on her goal. Can she get it together and earn herself a better life or is she too far gone?

Emily and Trix, who have grown apart but whose lives still wind around each other like helices, work separately to figure out how to fit into a world that doesn't much like girls who can't, or won't, conform to what's ordinary.

About the Author, Angie McCullagh

Angie McCullagh was born in rural Northern Michigan, studied Journalism at Michigan State, and moved West to Seattle, Washington where, in short order, she married and had two children. She has several fiction works published in journals such as Night Train, Colorado Review, the Florida Review, and Phoebe. She wrote Spectacle loosely based on the short story How A Girl Grows in which a mother gives birth to a giantess and fears deeply for her future. Angie is excited to be part of the e-publishing movement.