Be Careful What You Wish Fur by Vera Strange EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Vera Strange
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Scary Stories
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SELFIE
Click.
Delia studied the selfie on her phone, displayed in the
PicPerfect app. Her face stared back at her from the screen—
familiar, yet almost like a stranger. Hazel eyes, freckled cheeks, wavy
brown hair, heart-shaped lips. Her eyes were the one thing that she liked
about her appearance. Emerald flecked with cinnamon and even a little
gold. It was a rare eye color, and she’d gotten it from both her parents.
Mom had the emerald-green eyes, while her father had cinnamon brown—
or so she’d been told. She’d never actually met him, nor did her mother
keep pictures of him around.
Still, Delia frowned at her picture. She could spot every flaw in her
skin, especially the monster pimple threatening to explode on the tip of her
nose. Why did it always choose that spot? She approached the standing
mirror, crammed into the corner of her little attic bedroom of their Chicago
brownstone, and peered at her skin up close. She picked at the zit, but that
just made it worse. Red and angry and swollen.
“Why today of all days?” she muttered. “Why not yesterday, or even
tomorrow?” It was like the zit knew that it was her first day at her new
middle school.
It was an evil zombie zit. It had a life of its own.
A rush of anxiety crashed through her. There was no way to hide this
thing. And she needed to look perfect for her first day. Her mother had
always drummed that idea into her head.
You only get one chance to make a first impression.
Almost as if reading her thoughts, a prompt pinged from her phone.
Ready to post to PicPerfect?
Don’t let your ranking slide!
Delia’s heart stopped—No, I’m not ready!
Couldn’t the app detect the zombie zit on her nose?
Apparently not. But the app so needed to add that feature. She quickly
hit DISMISS, even though she did need to keep posting fresh content to her
profile to keep her ranking high. At her old school, she and her two best
friends in the world, Aaliyah and Zoe, had the highest rankings in their
class. That also meant they were the most popular kids.
Pretty much every kid her age had the PicPerfect app and monitored it
closely, the way adults watched the weather or the stock market, tracking
the slightest shifts and changes. If you didn’t keep posting selfies and
getting comments, then your ranking would plummet.
But there was a catch.
You couldn’t post just any old pic.
Posting bad selfies was worse than not posting at all. The goal was to
collect the pink heart emojis, and avoid the dreaded red devil faces. Users
clicked one if they liked your selfie and the other if they didn’t. The more
hearts, the more views you got, and the more popular your account became.
That was the goal. Grow your followers. The more hearts, the better.
But one devil could make your account ranking plummet.
And fast.
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