Roshani Chokshi
My Gollum tooth. So, one of my front teeth (not the first two, but the dude off to the side next to my incisor who I have fondly named Bunnicula) is an illusion. When I was little, I was born with a peg-lateral tooth, which is fancy talk for "RUNT TOOTH." It was just a sort of stumpy, backwards tooth alongside the rest of my normal sized chompers. I had to get a porcelain cap to cover it up which was fine until I was 19, went to an Italian restaurant, bit into a piece of bread and the damn thing *CAME OFF*. Do you know how traumatizing that is?! It was the worst. Not to mention the fact that when I went to parties in college, sometimes a frat house would throw an infernal black-light party and MY TOOTH DIDN'T SHOW UP UNDER THE BLACK LIGHTS. And I would just grin at people and they'd look utterly bewildered and AHHSJFSLDJFSLKDJFKDF.
Why.
Just why.
Did someone conspire to make sure that I was given exceptionally hard bruschetta?
Am I a joke?
I've even come up with mystery titles for my tooth:
THE TOOTH THAT NEVER WAS
THE TOOTH IN PORCELAIN-SHADE-2.1
THE MALTESE TOOTH
THE DENTIST'S HORROR
Why.
Just why.
Did someone conspire to make sure that I was given exceptionally hard bruschetta?
Am I a joke?
I've even come up with mystery titles for my tooth:
THE TOOTH THAT NEVER WAS
THE TOOTH IN PORCELAIN-SHADE-2.1
THE MALTESE TOOTH
THE DENTIST'S HORROR
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niya
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Roshani Chokshi:
I'm an okay writer but I want to become more than that, I want to make the stories I write really interesting. I'm only in middle school but I love writing and telling stories to my friends and family. I read a lot already and I want to be better at how I write the story to make the reader interested. Any tips?
Raneem K
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Roshani Chokshi:
What advice do you have for writers who are trying to break a certain stereotype in the YA/Fantasy genre, especially in empowering female heroines? How do they not go overboard and demasculinese (I think that's the right word) the male characters and still achieve their goal in empowering female characters?
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