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News Reports and Fist Fights

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

Rocking around on the bus, all the way to school I thought about the news story. Didn't they have any sympathy? Not even sympathy, compassion? Weren't..

F This and F that

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

He wasn’t home and I had an awkward introduction to his aunt. She was a large woman with a turnt up nose. Her stringy gray hair was pulled back ..

Palm Trees

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

The boulder was divided. There was red headed Mitch, Jackie and most of the other girls, Derek, and I on one side and everyone else on the other. Mark..

Time Bomb

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

It had been a few weeks since our midnight walk. It was the beginning of March and colder than what winter had been. Theo's mother was home now and he..

Thursday's Trash Day

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

Death isn't a resolution, it's an unsatisfying ending. He was found by a fisherman. It was a thursday, because I was cursing the garbage men and their..

Roger Dodger

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

School hired a grief counsellor and I was one of the only students required to go. More often than not I stared at the man with silence for an hour. H..

Piano

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

I was there when they buried him. His mother had hugged me close and we both cried for the loss of life, the loss of intelligence and promise. We crie..

Piano Pieces

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

The thunderstorm arrived in more ways than one. Dad came home at midnight as lightning lit the sky and flashed through the windows. The usual banging ..

Piano Smithereens

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

It was sometime before I got Derek to help me with the removal of Theo’s piano. I asked him to bring a bat. There it sat in the graveyard of spl..

How Arcas Changed My Life

A Chapter by Julia Ledo

Later on that night I put them on the bedside table in my room. As if I needed some reminder of him every morning. I suppose Derek was right though, I..