July 2012
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[Slight change to end of 1K] Butch asks me if I’d saw the new science fiction television show that started last month, and I’m about to tell him that I had seen it and thought it was pretty dumb so I wasn’t going to watch it no more, when a word surfaces from the pool…
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The Academy fencers walk past Butch and me like we’re not there, but they all nod to Annie, Wanda even smiles at her and says “Hi Annie.” My goal for today is to do well enough so that the Academy fencers start calling me by name. Annie walks over and talks to them — now…
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Unfortunately, this movie reminded me a lot of “Spider-Man 3” a few years back — the secondary plot and character were far more interesting than the primaries, too many villians, the pace choppy and episodic, story and character sacrificed for a lot of explosions and special effects. Yes, it’s a superhero movie, but the best…
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They all have their names in blue block letters on the legs of their fencing pants, which allows me to remember them from the spring. HARRIS. Jane Harris, the one who called hey, probably to Francis. She’s just as good as he is, which means she’s a lot better than anyone at Bark Bay. But…
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Francis takes off this long jacket he has, so now we can see his fencing shorts. They go down to just below the knee, and they’ve got these suspenders, thin white strips that go up the front of his blue t-shirt, then over the shoulders and back down. On the outside of either leg, PINE…
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Francis Pine walks past Butch and I like we’re not there. He sees Annie, nods in her direction. Must be cuz-of she eliminated two Academy fencers at our last tournament in the spring, had Francis tied at 12 too but then he got the last three to win. He wants to be called Francis, he…
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Butch is looking at the three-pronged adapter in his hand, his eyes following the cable leading from it to the scoring box. He holds it up to Annie (I seem to have fallen off his radar) and asks, “So you’re supposed to plug into this?” Now it’s Coach Sarah’s turn to butt in. “We’ll show…
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“So which one of you is sixteen?” Coach Sarah asks. Annie and Butch, they get this confused look on their faces and look at me, and I’m like sorry, I don’t know what she’s getting at either, so I shrug. Seeing our collective confusion, Coach Sarah says, “one of you must have driven. Unless you…
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We hear a metallic sound to our left, beyond the track. Sounds like a door. I turn toward the sound, and see a short woman with straight black hair and thick glasses walking onto the track. If I didn’t already recognize who it was from this distance I’d have assumed it was a student, but…
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“So this is where their fencing team practices?” Butch asks, his voice echoing against the brown stone walls of the massive field house. He’s still got that wide-eyed look, like he’s never seen a building as big as this, and when I think about it I realize that might actually be the case. His father,…
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