Mary Jane

Title: Mary Jane
Author:she floats.
Type: Original Fiction
Genre: Romance, Teen and Drama
Rating: NC-17

Her story Mary Jane is no different. An original work of fiction, it personifies the vibrancy and presence of a character that one can relate to, and yet find strange in the same breath. It is beautiful, cute in the way that only well thought out characters can truly be and may leave you with the vaguest recollection of the girl you avoided in the halls today because she was just "that kind of girl."

Mary Jane, the protagonist, is just the right shade of hippie and unusual. She jams pretty flowers into her tangled mess of waist length hair, ruins her outfits by wearing the wrong kind of size 6 flats and throws up on bifocalled teenaged boys named Chase. On Saturdays, Mary Jane likes to go to the mall and watch old men called Albert Sr. whose wives have just died and whose sons live too far away to visit regularly.

This story is young - just four short chapters in, to be honest, but it promises interesting characteristic quirks that seem a dominant theme in most of the stories she floats. posts. While it may be an original romance, to class it under just that one genre would offer it little justice. It is a story of a girl – too unusual to be average, and yet too average to be truly strange – whose chance and alcohol fuelled puke on a schoolmate’s shoes bring her a friend and much more.

For once, it isn’t the romance that interests me in this story, but the story of the girl called Mary Jane who is both a freak and a gift.