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Submitted to Contest #200
BucK and I laughed as the words rolled joyfully off Joey's tongue. "A fake book report?" I said, trying to shake my parental armor, my compulsive need to guide these two through the ups and downs of conventional education. "Yep," he said. "Eddie and Jimmy always get A's on book reports we write in class. Their parents help them practice the night before. Other kids, they just skim a book and fake like they read a whole one. Hardly anybody really does." He poured a glass of milk and sat down with the sports page. "I'm going to make up the...
Submitted to Contest #176
1 'Old Steve' is how most folks referred to him. He was a story teller, a home-grown oral historian with a prodigious memory. People of all ages listened to him. He was 12 years old when he arrived in town on a September day in 1906 and joined the crowd celebrating the completion of the railroad. The town was finally connected to the outer world by something that didn't involve horses. Orpahed at age five, he was passed between families. He never got past the eighth grade. An adventurous kid, he had hitched a ride as a brakeman on a suppl...
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