Block!

by Lydia Ondrusek

Erin has never been secretive, but she's starting to wonder; is it still keeping a secret if you just don’t tell anybody? What if nobody asks?


Could what Margret and her friends (or henchmen) are doing be Erin's secret? Erin is being bullied at school. She hasn’t reported the abuse to anyone in charge, not her teachers, or her parents–she hasn’t even talked to her twin brother Tim about it. Erin believes her reasons for not discussing what’s going on are good. Or she did. She’s not so sure anymore.


The bullying has gone from insults to physical attacks that are getting dangerous. They’re bad enough that now Erin is scared to go to school. It’s stopped feeling like a safe place to be. Can what she’s learning in taekwondo help?

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 19, 2011

About the author

Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two who describes herself as writing her way out of a paper bag. Her fiction (mostly flash) and poetry can be found various places, including Flash Fiction Online and Apex Magazine. Like everyone else in this and all other parallel universes, she is writing a novel. Okay, two. She tries and mostly fails to keep www.lydiaondrusek.com updated, and spends too much time on Twitter, where she is known as @littlefluffycat.

Reviews

[Molly Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was YA that resounded. Ondrosek writes about things that haunt us during the times of our lives that should be carefree, but instead are often hellish. Good book!