The boots and radios faded until the only sound was Sage’s heart pounding in her ears. Her mind filled with images of guns and blood and her favorite people lying lifeless in the hall.
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It’s like some Greek or Roman tragedy in the sky, the gods battling among themselves and thunder rolling down from the clouds, an occasional lighting bolt striking at our feet.
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There, 10 x 4 position just like I was taught 65 years ago. Wonder if that’s where they got that 10 – 4, just about the only thing that’s OK when you’re old.
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I won’t give up on Angie. Will she ever trust me or talk to me again? I turn around, take out my phone, and call 911. Where’s the humor in this?
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“Start over” after “start over” after “start over,” we trudge back to the beginning of the set. Haley hisses at the sophomores who are scuffing their toes into the dirt. Anything—any small thing—could be the next spark for Dr. Hightower’s wrath.
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I stayed that way, fist in mouth, breathing through my nose, my elbow way out in front of me, my crush next to me somehow not noticing, in the dark of the audience, dazzled by the light of the stage, keeping all that strangeness inside, holding the storm of my personality at bay, lost boy, trapped in time and space.
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Listen, kid: I’ve got a list of names as long as the Nile to get through and they sure as hell ain’t paying me overtime.
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No, this ain’t ma and pa’s field. Not really a field at all.
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