Title: The Girl Who Could Change Fate
Author: Cassidy Ostergren
Category/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
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Lacey Joy White considers herself unremarkable in every way: she worries
over choosing the right clothes, tries to maintain a D in chemistry, and spends
nights creeping on her crush on Facebook. And she can alter the future.
As I had already been staring at
Alex two rows away, I didn’t miss him cast a furtive glance in the teacher’s
direction before erasing what appeared to be a name on the right side corner of
a worksheet. My name. On my worksheet. He didn’t even try to glimpse me as he
scribbled his own name down and handed it forward. Perhaps he knew he would see the expression
of utter horror that was steadily warping my face. I wouldn’t have wanted to see it either.
“Now, that worksheet will be counted
as a quiz grade…” Mrs. Kramer began.
I didn’t listen. Alex’s betrayal was gnashing at my insides
with teeth of biting cruelty as bitter understanding of his intentions dawned
upon me with all the force of a tidal wave.
I was suffocating under depths of cold reality, the truth more stinging
than his actual actions—the truth that I was no more than a tool…that it was
only illusion—an illusion I clung to nevertheless because it was all I could
do.
Man, life can be a bitch.
I resisted the tears that clumped
around my lashes, though the temptation to burst with them was more than
enticing. My hands balled into fists
that I smashed upon my Macbeth book with dull thuds. I didn’t really like that—Macbeth happened to
be my favorite play of all time, as it made me recall how helpless the title
character was in striving to avoid his Fate at all costs—a Fate he could not
avoid.
Cassidy
Ostergren was born and grew up in the DC metropolitan area. She attended
Roanoke College in Salem, VA, where she majored in Creative Writing and
English, and published several of her works in both the college and local magazines.
She is currently a full-time novelist of YA fiction and lives on Oak Island,
NC, where she enjoys taking walks on the beach with her dog and composing her
newest stories.
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