Fault
By Amy Ellis
3.5/5
()
About this ebook
Liz is a regular teenager with a best friend who can get her into the best parties which is great until Liz gets roofied and raped one night at a party and when she starts to speak up, things get messy. When no one, including her best friend, believes her story, she finds herself absolutely alone and the target of bullies, threatening her to "stop lying." Just as Liz is giving used to getting milk poured down her shirt and being called the school slut, mysterious letters begin appearing in her locker and Liz learns that there is more power in numbers and words than she ever imagined. Told in haunting verse, Fault is a story of power and taking back control when all seems completely lost.
Amy Ellis
Amy Ellis is a Longwood University graduate with a BA in English/Creative Writing and a minor in Children’s Literature. She is currently working on her Master's degree in Digital Publishing from Oxford Brookes University in the UK. She is the founder of The Self-Publishing Toolbox, a resource for self-published authors. Find out more about the toolbox at selfpubtoolbox.com.
Read more from Amy Ellis
Thinspo Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Modern Ghost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHe is the Monster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Museum of Broken Objects Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Muse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGirls Who Wear Pink Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Fault
Related ebooks
Are You Still There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Break Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lighthouse on the Wall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMercy, Unbound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thicker Than Water Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fresh Cut Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mess Of Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkin and Bones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bleed Like Me Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kiss of Broken Glass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Faerie Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Clean Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Damaged Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alive and Cutting: A Teenager's Journey in Therapy to Understanding Her Self-Harm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrazy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Over You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blazed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cracked Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Inside: A True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautiful Monster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrazy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Empty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting Backwards Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fix Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cut Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Other Broken Things Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Skinny Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Teach Me to Forget Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
YA Social Themes For You
Firekeeper's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunderhead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better Than the Movies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Toll Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer I Turned Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way I Used to Be Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Monster: A Printz Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Out of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ace of Spades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elsewhere: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Little Prince: New Translation by Richard Mathews with Restored Original Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cellar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gallant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Movie Tie-in Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Both Die at the End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All American Boys Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is Where It Ends Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Pirate King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Siren Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Giver Quartet Omnibus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Allegedly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poet X Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Delirium Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Fault
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Fault - Amy Ellis
Fault
Amy Ellis
Fault
Copyright © 2013 Amy Ellis
All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except in the context of reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real people, living or dead, are purely coincidental. All characters and events in this work are figments of the author’s imagination.
Smashwords Edition
Cover image Copyright © Can Stock Photo / tanatat
How It Starts
It starts with a kiss. They said
it’d be innocent enough.
They said. Panties sliding off,
one shoe still on, one shoe on
the unvacuumed floor—
someone’s bedroom. Condom
wrappers. This is how it starts.
Lucy
Lucy’s a boy magnet. Black
curls that hang on her shoulders,
breasts that nearly spill out
and a toothpaste ad smile. Boys
cling to her, wanting to peek
inside her sweaters and longingly
watching her suck a strawberry
milkshake, a red and white straw
placed between her pink lips.
I’m not like that; ash blonde
and bland, flat hair and flat
chested. My sweaters sag
where my breasts should be,
my lips a dull cracked salmon.
They don’t watch me nurse
a milkshake or a lollipop.
They don’t fantasize about me.
Dad
Dark hair, disheveled and peppered with gray,
his work uniform coated in drywall dust,
sipping coffee at the kitchen table
reading the newspaper from last week.
He’d been waiting for me.
How was the sleepover? His eyes lit up.
Great, I said, trying to hide the ripped underwear
balled up in my hand, the raging hangover,
the urge to vomit on the front porch,
the pain between my legs. It was great.
Vanilla Girls
Lucy and I used sit on the curb to eat vanilla
ice-cream cones, our tongues licking
white cream from the sides as it dribbled down.
We never thought a thing of it.
We’d never do that now.
Mr. Martin’s Drawing Room
I sit in the back of my classes,
only raise my hand in English,
listening to the hum of poetry
on the teacher’s tongue, hanging
after class on the decoupaged stool
at the front of the room, watching
the posters on the room follow
me with their eyes. I stay
because he understands.
I draw him