Apex Magazine Promo 2020 by Apex Magazine & Beth Dawkins

Author:Apex Magazine & Beth Dawkins [Broaddus, Maurice & Dawkins, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apex Publications

In school they taught us how to read and write, how to add and subtract. Even then, you knew which kids would make it out of town. They were quiet. Mindful. They shared their blocks and pencils, understanding that they’d have plenty.

“I’m Marian,” I told a beautiful little girl, sporting freckles across her nose and cheeks. We were in third grade. She let me borrow a pencil.

“I know,” she said, with a shrug.

She wrote her name on top of her paper. Heather. Even her handwriting was pristine.

Heather received top marks all the way through school until they let her out at sixteen after three days of tests. They controlled the wall, and gave her a ticket over it. No one sees them. No one talks about it.

I skipped two of those days to sit on Tim’s front porch. We drank cheap vodka out of a plastic bottle, daring one another to take shot after shot until we both ended up on the bathroom floor, taking turns worshipping the great porcelain god.

Tim’s mom owns an old, crumbling farmhouse that she inherited from her parents. She took in kids whose parents died of exhaustion or blew their brains out in bathroom stalls. The kids hung around the front porch like cats bathing in the sun. In a few more years Tim would be in and out of jail for fights or dealing pot, unless he’s moved on to meth.

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