The family at the corner house has been evicted. As their wagon pulled away, the Black boy next door stood in the road and raised both middle fingers.
Three voices, one bookshelf — fiction and reflection in about twenty minutes.
Tag: childhood
There’s been an altercation in the schoolyard. A sharpened screwdriver was involved. The eight-year-old on the ground is the one they took to the office.
He was hospitalized twice that year. Both times, he fell down the stairs. He sleeps in the hall closet at the top of them. A free 10-minute read.