What felt like a fly crawling down my cheek was a solitary sweatdrop.

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

A forty-eighth of 960 is 20.

[…] this focus on a multiplicity of voices, as feminist theorists point out, is characteristic of writing by minority women and, by extension seems apposite to these narratives of tweenness. Girlhood can thus be described as a period for creatively making symbolic meaning […]