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2016

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Pam and Curtis brought Stacy to Jamaica because they didn’t know what else to do with her. They believed that her old-time granny would straighten her out. In Brooklyn, Stacy cut her classes often, and she was caught giving a boy a blowjob in an empty classroom. They looked at the sweet little face on the body of a woman, and they were terrified of her and for her. It seemed that her breasts and ass were getting bigger every day. Often Pam would pull down Stacy’s shirt to give her ass better coverage, and Stacy would groan and laugh, tucking her shirt back into her jeans. Pam wondered aloud to Curtis whether Stacy’s curvy body was because of all the chicken wings she ­enjoyed eating from the Chinese food restaurant. In America, Pam argued, chickens were injected with hormones,...

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Literary Dimensions
Emotional Weight 3.4 / 5

Bittersweet

Narrative Pacing 3.1 / 5

Moderate

Literary Style 2.3 / 5

Clear Realism

Speculative / Reality 1.6 / 5

Realistic / Mimetic

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