Shae Sennett

Shae Sennett is a writer based in New York. Her poetry has been published by Spectra Poets and Ex Pat Lit Journal. She has written about film and television for Slash Film, Screen Rant, and more. Her debut short film Times Square Love Story is available to screen on NoBudge and her debut play Last Night Was A Play opened with a sold out off-off-Broadway run in 2023. Shae’s aunt recently introduced her to a friend as “between jobs right now” and “trying to be a writer” and it barely even hurt her feelings. She hopes you like the piece—this is her first short story.

GHOST STORY by Shae Sennett

December 13, 2024 · Fiction, Translation

Being a girl inside Blue Park is insanely humiliating, but I am prepared to weather the storm. I am cased in my androgynous armor of enormous jorts from the early aughts and a baggy N-Sync shirt that subtly signals irony in an overtly post-ironic way — the mustache finger tattoo of my generation. God bless me, I am positively swimming in a sea of cute boys. I feel like I am in a fanfiction, but I am way too ugly to be Y/N and no one here even cares that I am reading Nietzsche’s Collected Works. Nonetheless, I am doing…

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