The Pain Jar
KC Finn has won multiple awards for her independent novels for young adult and adult readers and is co-owner of Odd Voice Out Press, which celebrates diverse voices in teen fiction. Her futuristic climate horror story Sixty-Five Days Of Night was longlisted in the Everything Change Climate Fiction Prize and is now published in the Odd Voices Anthology of Not So Normal Narrators. More recently, KC completed a sixty-day poetry video series on Instagram as part of her lockdown writing projects, including many new poems focused on animal care, nature and climate futures. She enjoys creating diverse works that represent lesserknown voices and issues in the lives of young people.
They weren’t like me. They sat in the cafeteria, with its echoing walls and its endless clashing of trays and knives and glasses, and they talked. They laughed and cried, accused and fought, and fell off their chairs with shrieks and guffaws. It seemed to me that all that other people did was talk. But not to me. Because I never talked back. ‘Oh look. It’s that
