What You Can Do With Your Book_An After-School Lesson_This Ain’t No Picnic_That Day
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What You Can Do With Your Book
You present me with a gift bag as if legions of angels will descend, trumpeting your thoughtfulness in remembering my [insert celebratory event here]. I’m gracious, of course. You shouldn’t have!And I mean that. You shouldn’t have. Because now you are stepping over the line. We are simply: co-workers mothers with children at the same school neighbors with dogs old-friends-from-college, or spouses-of-old-friends-from-college. Regardless, we are not on gift-bagging terms. Especially the kind you immediately re-gift to other peripheral friends: scented candles, cheap chocolates, fuzzy socks,...
An After-School Lesson
The city library wasn’t in the worst part of our town. But it was close enough to always double-check that I’d locked my bike before I went inside.That spring, I’d taken to always riding down there after school to do my homework. Though I was from the right side of the tracks – barely – I wasn’t scared of the ride not quite into the slums. It was where most of my friends lived, which was one of a hundred reasons why my mother and I didn’t get along at all lately. Another was my avoiding spending time at home after school. “You ought to face your problems, Jack, not run away from them! Especial...
This Ain’t No Picnic
“This is so going to be worth getting up early in the morning for,” Ace said. “A day at the beach. Sun and surf capped off by a picnic.”“You’re sure you packed everything, Daria?” Hugh asked.“Don’t be such a buzzkill,” Daria replied. “I got it all. Towels, blankets, sunscreen, snacks, even binoculars.” “It’s just that organization is not one of your skill sets,” Hugh pointed out.Daria huffed. “Is that a dig about the Halloween party? One little mistake…”“You put lit candles on the scarecrows,” Hugh teased.“The fire department was able to save the building,” Daria replied. “This trip is gonna ...
That Day
That DayA giant shark named Hank once lived in a large big yellow ocean. Unlike most sharks that only eat every two to three days, Hank has to eat once a day to maintain his massive size. Hank comes from a family of large sharks by which they were known all over the Yellow Ocean as the family that originated fwww.onedoor.ccrom Mammoth Underwater World. The Mammoth Underwater world is an area located near the center of the earth where it is known that all sharks from this area overate. This makes it impossible for Hank's family to be a standard size. Hank had a sister named Shorty, that was larger than the e...