If you read yesterday’s chapter, then you know about the “Batter Up” game, which is a game I do not endorse – at all – but admit would’ve been thrilled to know about (and try) when I was 15 or 16.
This chapter is my favorite so far. It is awkward and painful and sad. It’s sweet, too. I wanted to get at the fall of a crush, and of a best friendship. I wanted to show how lovely and painful they both are.
This is all 100% made up, but when I was teaching 8th grade, and we studied fiction, I used to ask my students to look for what’s true. So that’s what I’ll leave you with – looking for, and perhaps thinking about your own stories that are true. No matter how heart-aching they are (the best ones usually are).
Read Chapter Six, “The Hank Aaron Party,” here.
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