A Beautiful Nerd
By Peter Dean Rickards • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: FeaturesRemember that girl in grade 6 who’s head you used to pound with chalkbrush erasers?
The one with the funny name whose lunch smelled.
The geek who would sit alone in the corner of the cafeteria, eating fried bologna and chocolate milk; stopping every now and then to peer nervously over her thick Coca-Cola bottle eyeglasses as if on constant alert for any incoming spitballs?
Remember her?
You flung mud at her once and poisoned her goldfish that she brought in for ‘Pet Day’–then laughed when she tried to revive it with mouth-to-mouth.
That’s how she got the name Fishlips.
Ah, that nerdy girl…even if you don’t remember her, she remembers you.
Peter Dean Rickards is a founder and Editor of First Magazine and creator of The Afflicted Yard. He's also a photographer and occasionally has been known to write.
He's based in Kingston, Jamaica and is likely to stay there until he is surprised at his gate by gunmen who shoot him and steal his cellphone.
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one word. beautiful.
on so many levels there is beauty everywhere. in her, in each photo, in the composition…..excellent job
Sexy mawga gyal!
I love these editorial photos….inspiring
Really sexy and can take a good picture. ratings gone up 10 + 1.
I can always count on you guys (first-magazine and affictedyard) to put out dark skinned beauty. I know its supposed to be “out of many one people” but the local magazines, commercials and beauty contests are always trying to overdose us on light skinned girls. Keep snapping!