The author of this story, Jackie Brewster has written: “The Fox Cub” in year 2014, while currently living in Nottingham. She actually won the competition of Mselxia, which is a women’s magazine.
Shortly put, it’s about a brand new friendship developing between two young girls and becoming a brief acquaintance at the same time when it suddenly ended. The story is written in medias res and is not chronologically build up for the reader to go through. We first meet one of the head roles of characters in the story, named Marie. Then Rachel is mentioned when she stops peddling her bike as she sees the new girl, who approaches nearer to the playing field. They fell into a conversation which turns out to give discomfort to poor Rachel, who kind of regrets the talk with Marie after. Marie wants to show her something. [Læs mere…]