Creative Writing Studio Workshop Excerpt
Sari Polakow didn’t like people. When she was seven years old her parents quickly learned this fact the day they get a call from the principal’s office. For the entire school year Sari had said only six words; all of them at once. And it was the day the principle called that she used them. In the last seat of the last row in her second-grade class Sari threw over her desk during quiet reading time and screamed “I hate everyone in this room!”
Nobody knew why Sari was the way she was. During the 10 years of school she had left, Sari’s parents tried endlessly to get her to stop hating everyone. But they could not. Sari couldn’t be saved. She didn’t want to be saved. And after she graduated, she packed her things and moved away, leaving no notes or a forwarding address. Sari just wanted to be alone. And now she can be, because nobody, not even her parents, will ever see Sari again…