Tobey Ward "Cherry Engine Red"
I don’t remember writing this story, but I recognize the inspiration. The town, Miriam’s attic room, and Gino Trevelli’s house are all based on places I knew growing up. The narrator is a version of who I used to be: a girl longing to be someone else. I probably wrote this story six to eight years ago in my writing group. I rediscovered it this year and thought, this isn’t bad. I made a few minor edits and struggled with the ending, which may still be in progress. Then I sent it out. It was rejected six times before being accepted here. Ironically, I now work as a copywriter and sometimes do come up with names for makeup shades, the future job of which my long-ago self (and the narrator) dreamed.
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Tobey Ward received her MFA from the University of Oregon, and her fiction and lifestyle writing have appeared in The South Carolina Review, DC Magazine, and Red Rock Review, among others. She currently lives in Philadelphia where she is an editorial copywriter at Urban Outfitters.
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