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| new kid in the snowsuit |
| by Justin Hyde |
| said his name
was chad and sat down next to me on the steps at recess. he was in sixth grade. i was in fourth. middle of june. i didn't know why he wore a snowsuit everyday. didn't ask, didn't care, it was nice to have someone to talk to. told me his dad fought in vietnam . i lied told him my dad had been in vietnam too. we decided they must have been in the same platoon. he was going to ask his dad about it when he came back from utah which he said should be any day now. sitting on the stairs we played a game seeing how close we could toss pebbles to a patch of grass growing out of the cracked playground. the pebbles were grenades and the patch of grass was a gook hut. while we played we joked about how many chink gooks we were going to rape. he'd say he was going to rape six of em in the throat. then i'd say i was going to rape ten of em in the eyes. it went on like that for a couple weeks. until a woman and a man in a suit took him away from school in the middle of the day. i heard a teacher say something about foster care. some of the kids said he'd murdered someone. i didn't know exactly where they took him. but out there at recess i was alone on the steps again. |
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| Feb. 2010 |
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