Revised version:

She's six. I know because that's how many fingers raised to my question. She's a girl with goals. Works the beach every day after school selling Chiclets; carries a tiny red plastic handbag.

It's six. She's tired, sits on the edge of the boardwalk to wait for her ride. She empties the purse on the boardwalk. Among the pesos and centavos: a collection of shells, an earring, a broken friendship bracelet made of colorful floss, and pistachio shells.

Six of them. Her small fingers fit nicely inside the shells and after a time she manages to apply six pistachio nails. She clinches the purse between her legs and fans fingers gracefully, while the other hand makes a pointing fist. Imagining the nails as they will be when she is grown and gone.

Original:

She's six. I know because that's how many fingers she held up when I asked. She's a girl with goals. Works the beach every day after school selling Chiclets; carries a tiny red plastic handbag.

It's six. She's tired, sits on the edge of the boardwalk to wait for her ride. She empties the purse on the boardwalk. Among the pesos and centavos: a collection of shells, an earring, a broken friendship bracelet made of colorful floss, and pistachio shells.

Six of them. Her tiny fingers fit nicely inside the shells and after a time she manages to apply six pistachio nails. She clinches the purse between her legs and fans fingers gracefully, while the other hand makes a pointing fist. Imagining the nails as they will be when she is grown and gone.

el vee, I can see her but i think you need to get rid of information the images don't need and paint what you see.

She's six. I know because that's how many fingers she held up to my question.

She comes to the beach every day after school with goals in a red plastic, some-day-rich-leather-handbag.

I'd make the selling of Chiklets minor to the pesos and centavoc in her bag and go to her body language and the action of her hands.

That hand held up says so much. And probably she doesn't feel so tired just then with her dream.

Mugs

Six of them.  They cap her fingers in a good fit and after a time she manages to apply six pistachio nails.  She clinches the purse between her legs, fans one hand while the other makes a pointing fist she examines, imagining the nails as they will be when she is grown and gone.

[I wouldn't use tiny in paragraph 1 and in pargraph 3.  Unless you used it in a few more places [I know; that makes no sense at all]

I like this Lavonne.  I like how the color is used; and how the pistachio is both a nourishment for her imagined future, and a shell; and how the purse holds such left-over bits of already has-been treasures.

Quite remarkable what you achieve here in so few words, such little space.

lynn

Gonna revise some but still pondering. Thanks gals. That was lots of help!

You are very welcome.

Say when was the last time we three had a challenge thing going on?