Stories tagged “middle school”
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Why They Became Deceased
The letter was from ancient times, a note written in the scrawl of a middle school kid. “How did it not bio degrade?” asked the apprentice archeologist. “Paper was a source back then that was sensitive to the elements. It has always d...
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Poolside Appetites
My friend Cindy and Shelly had beat me out of the locker room by a couple of minutes. But as I got to the pool, they were nowhere in sight. But I did see two middle school girls on the poolside chaise lounges. They both had bulging bellies—if it hadn...
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Desk #9: Juan de Silva
Juan de Silva sat in the back of the classroom, mercifully forgotten. After the label of the foreigner had lost its luster in the eyes of his less tactful peers, Juan found solace in sinking into the woodwork. It was nice there; the echoes of “Jo...
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Juan
From the outside of Campbell’s Diner, Juan could see the flashing lights, could hear the pop music of his school’s dance a block away. Most of the kids he knew would be there; he, in contrast, was up the street, bussing tables and taking out the tr...
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A Light Bulb for his Birthday
We weren’t exactly friends. We had that tenuous friendship that only existed in empty hallways and secret notes; whispers and secrets that we told only to each other, simply for the fact that no one would believe we ever talked. Your death came a...