A CRUSHED BUDWEISER CAN smacked Tenny above his left ear. Beer splattered onto his shoulder. “Wuss! It’s a frigging turtle. What do you care?” Huge grabbed a cold one. “Knock it off, both a yous!” Their dad pelted a second red and white can at Tenny’s head. “You should know better’n pick a fight with your brother. Least til you grow a bit, or a pair.” “Grow something so you […]
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Leslee Goodman | ‘The curse’…and a blessing
I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN EVENTUALLY. It had already to most of my friends. Mom had even told me what to expect before she died—before we even went to the Dominican Republic, the summer before I started junior high. Still, it was a shock to stand up from the toilet and see blood in the water. I yelped like a stepped-on puppy and stared, fascinated, at the clot of red […]
Rose Wood | St. Jessica: Protector of Skinny Schoolgirls
THAT HURRICANE SEPTEMBER had started like every school day of every school year of our lives: Mom rousting Julian and me by breezing into our upstairs bedroom singing “Rise and shine,” a phrase that was all the more annoying because of her good cheer. She’d slide open the louvered doors of our closet and pull out clothes, hold them up briefly for our approval, then order us out of bed […]
Matthew Harrison | Revenge
THE BROWN FAMILY is going to eat at their local steakhouse. It’s been a struggle to decide, because Sarah, the youngest, is a vegetarian and feels sorry for the cows. But the boys, Stephen and James, insist, and Mr. Brown also likes to have a good steak now and then–and why not now? It is quite tedious living with Sarah and having lentil soup and nut cutlets all the time. […]
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