Jasminum McMullen's fiction and poetry have appeared in Past Ten, A Gathering Together, and Stella Veritatis. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes in Chicago.
My story will be faithful to reality, or at least to my personal recollection of reality, which is the same thing. The events took place in the Fall of 2018 after a Michael and Janet Jackson themed lip-sync competition at Sidetracks in