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    Southpaw: A Tale About a Girl’s Imagination
    Southpaw: A Tale About a Girl’s Imagination
    Southpaw: A Tale About a Girl’s Imagination
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    Southpaw: A Tale About a Girl’s Imagination

    By Stephanie Lee

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    In 2017 Stephanie Lee took a very uncomfortable step to write a short book. She was challenged to write this book in three weeks. And she met the challenge. Southpaw – A Tale About A Girl’s Imagination is a mixture of different, difficult, and confusing circumstances that propels the main character to move forward into a life that makes her grateful, happy, and successful. In this tale the reader finds Gwendolyn struggling with her life. Slowly she begins to use her imagination. And slowly life gets better and better…every day and in every way. This is truly an example of how to get everything you want and desire by using your imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateJul 23, 2018
    ISBN9781483485959
    Southpaw: A Tale About a Girl’s Imagination

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      Southpaw - Stephanie Lee

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      PART 1

      1

      Beautiful Future

      Gwendolyn Fisk? Gwen? Can you answer the question? Gwendolyn heard her physics teacher, Mr. Muller, ask.

      Gwendolyn was one of the top students in her class. She had never thought she would like science as much as she recently had, but the class’s topic of the law of cause and effect for the last couple of weeks had interested her quite a bit. Today, however, her mind fled elsewhere. She had pressing issues to think about at the moment.

      She looked out the classroom window and daydreamed about the two job offers that she had to decide between. She had licked both interviews and felt pretty good about the outcomes as she left each one. Then, both companies had offered her a position, and both companies were waiting patiently for an answer. Time was ticking.

      One job was practical and would earn Gwendolyn a stable income. In this job, Gwendolyn would start as an assistant to the president at Steadfast Securities. It was the kind of job that people had repeatedly told her that nobody should ever turn down. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, everyone called it, especially her parents, Edvard and Hanna. A lead from a friend of her father’s friend—pretty much a stranger—had landed her the interview.

      Of course, to the naked eye, this job looked ideal. Her parents were pushing for this one, only because they didn’t think she had enough work experience to start with much more. So this job, in their eyes, was a perfect match. You don’t have to be experienced to make copies and get coffee. How did Gwendolyn know she would do that in this particular job? It said it in the job description. That description less than thrilled Gwendolyn.

      Yes, as her parents had told her, the assistant position was a fairly safe bet—a job, rather than a career, where advancement wasn’t difficult, even for the worst assistant. This job would bring in twenty-five thousand dollars per year. It would give her a steady income, and hopefully, she would move up in salary as she became more seasoned at the job. But the job wouldn’t really allow for any creativity. It really seemed quite bovine to Gwendolyn. She imagined doing the same thing day after day.

      Gwendolyn knew if she chose the assistant position, she would be so unhappy. She loved her parents, no doubt. But she had to have the freedom of an adult, and the freedom to make the decision on her own, without her parents’ influence. Lately, however, every time she spoke to them, they asked her if she had made a decision.

      The second job was more to Gwendolyn’s liking. She felt passionate about this one. She thought it would be way more exciting and creative than the first job. It involved something she had always wanted to do. It involved something that she had naturally been gifted at from a very early age. She wanted to pursue the life and career of a budding illustrator, and this job would help her do that.

      Over time, Gwendolyn had become very good at drawing. She drew so often she found penciled drawings and doodles of people, animals, insects, and scenery in her backpack, gym bag, and big bag. She drew with abandon. She happily saved everything she drew and tucked all the drawings into her desk drawers at home until there was barely enough room for more. She hung the drawings on her wall until she couldn’t see the wall underneath. She had seen her artwork get stronger throughout the years as she had become more confident with her craft.

      This job was really an apprentice position where Gwendolyn would work closely with a well-known illustrator, learning the nuances of the craft and creating art. As she had explained to her parents, as part of this apprenticeship, she would also have a part-time position working in an art store in a very safe area downtown. Gwendolyn knew that she would have a great time with both these apprenticeship roles, and that it was more than just a job. It would mean a career, but she faced a dilemma. Taking this job, she would not earn as much money to start. It was only eighteen thousand dollars per year. She would have a fun life, though. She smiled thinking about this option. Yes, her heart leaned toward learning, going to gallery openings, and meeting other artists, and, hopefully, getting her name out there in the art world. Her heart fluttered every time she thought about it.

      For Gwendolyn, choosing between the two job offers was no contest, but her mother and father had a different thought on the matter. They wanted her to take the assistant position so she could enjoy the security of a little saved money—a nest egg, they called it. They didn’t want her to live at home and rely on them forever.

      Gwendolyn knew that if she chose the art position, she might run into financial trouble and potentially might have to come back home to live, a failure. And she knew if she had to come back home to live, her parents would watch her every move, tell her when she gained weight, tell her what to wear—or rather, what not to wear—ask her where she was going at all times, and tell her what time to be home and what they thought of her friends. But she put her foot down on that thought. She would never come back home to live. She no longer wanted to be part of that life. She had to find a way to avoid that. After all, she was a big girl now and had to act the part.

      But still, she grew more confused at her options; it was a little more than she wanted to think about. Couldn’t someone make the decision for her?

      Yes! An idea suddenly came to Gwendolyn. She thought she could lay out both options to a third party, perhaps a group of her friends, and all together, they would weigh all the pros and cons. That is exactly what she would do—problem solved. It seemed too easy a solution. She wondered why she hadn’t thought of it before.

      Gwendolyn quickly glanced at the classroom clock. Ah, yes! she thought. Class was over. She smiled and sighed in relief because she really didn’t feel like answering Mr. Muller’s question, and now, she didn’t have to. All Gwendolyn needed to do

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