First Date

by J.M. Reilly

34 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2026

About the author

My sixth grade English teacher told me I could write, but she chose the worst possible way. She announced it to the entire class. Then she read my essay — a first-person account of a day in the life of my football helmet — out loud and asked everyone to comment. I overcame.

Since then I've written for TV, film, and YouTube, but nothing has ever transported me like written stories. I always thought writers and musicians led the best lives, and I couldn't play a musical instrument, so...

When I'm not writing, I'm cooking, planning what to cook, or watching cooking videos. Ask me how many videos I've watched about how to chop an onion.

If you're drawn to tenacious women like Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Alien and Sarah Connor in The Terminator — characters who face impossible odds and never quit — Punch-Girl belongs in that company. The plots move fast, the villains are genuinely dangerous, and the world keeps getting bigger.

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