Jack on the Tracks by Jack Gantos

Author:Jack Gantos [Gantos, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-374-33665-3
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 1999-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

After they ran off I figured it was my turn to scare someone. And I knew exactly who I wanted to get.

I hustled over to Miss Fry’s back porch. I peeked in her window to see if she was all dressed up in special police gear. But I didn’t see anything. I squatted down and scratched at the bottom of her door.

“Heeelp meee. Saaave meee,” I warbled. “The convicts got me and I’m bleeding to death.” I stood up and began to back away from the door. I figured when she opened it I’d toss Miss Kitty II at her and see what happened.

Suddenly a hand grabbed the back of my collar and I fell over backward. I looked up. It was Miss Fry. She had snuck around on me.

“You smarmy little creep,” she said. “You think I’m going to fall for your bozo tricks?”

“You’re scaring me,” I said.

She bent over and grabbed the front of my shirt. “Come into my house,” she said, “and I’ll really scare you! And your cat!”

I didn’t know what else to do so I said, “Trick or treat.”

“Treat,” she replied, and grabbed the pizza boxes. She stepped over me and went in her back door. Then before I could scramble back up on my feet she threw the door open.

“Did you puke on this pizza?” she hollered.

“It’s Hawaiian,” I said.

She sniffed it. “Only a sick kid like you would eat garbage like this.”

Then she threw it at me. I ducked and she slammed her door. Then one by one all her lights went off and she let out a bloodcurdling scream. I hope she takes her medication, I thought, as I crawled around her back yard sniffing toward my Hawaiian.

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