Dawn Reader

Dawn Reader
from Open Door Coffee Co.; Hudson, OH; Oct. 26, 2016

Friday, September 27, 2013

Spoon River Middle School: 58


Claire Bell 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

            Will we ever laugh again?

Terry Crowe 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

We all need wings.

Victoria Byle 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

I was right to hate that kid.

Ally Lone 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

Would a friend have made a difference?

Billy Belfry 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

Crazy damn kid.

James B. Kuhl III 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

My father won’t put up with this.

Melanie Fly 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

Can death find you anywhere?

Chris Cross 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

Jesus.
Oh Jesus!

Mary Goodwin 

Overheard in hallway after lockdown lifted.

There’s more than one way to make a monster.

Billy Kidd 

Note in File.

Wild Bill and Wyatt Earp and them made cowboys check their guns—turn them in—before they rode into town.  It’s right there, in print, in all them books I read.

Jennifer Queen 

Note in File.

Would he have hurt me?
That’s not how I saw it, not in my dream, the one where we were royalty.  King.  Queen.  And Joe was there, too, helping us with our dreams.  Like what happens in some stories and movies and the Bible.
Dreams inside dreams … such things can go on forever, you know?

Joe Britecote 

Note in File.

I did dream that this would happen … really.  But I just did not believe it, you know?
Afterwards, I saw Jennifer in the library.  She came over to my table, leaned down, whispered, “You were in my dream.”
And then I said—before I even thought about it at all: “I’d rather be in your life.”
She stared at me.  I felt myself shrivel like a cold worm on a hot sidewalk.
Then she said, “But you are, Joe.  You are.”
She turned and went back to her friends and I know that I’ll be thinking about those six words—But you are, Joe.  You are.—for the rest of my whole entire life.


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