Girl Disappeared
From IWWG (International Women's Writing Guild): "On March 30, 1858, Hyman L. Lipman patented the pencil with an attached eraser. I can't help but think of Russell Edson's prose poem, "Erasing Amyloo" . Use Edson's first sentence to launch your own piece about a daughter's experience of being invisible to her father: A father with a huge eraser erases his daughter" Girl Disappeared They all thought it was so cool that my father was a magician. “A real magician!” they squealed at my sixth birthday party. It didn’t get any better over the years. In high school, they wanted him to perform at their birthday parties, wanted him to do more elaborate illusions every time. Who did they think he was, David fucking Blain? Maybe if he had been…. It all happened fast, when you think about it. I fell and skinned my knees one too many times, so he made them disappear. At least they couldn’t hurt anymore when I fell. When I got a l