My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

Author:Tim Guest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It seems like such a long way away now. We played crazy golf. We hooked the balls through windmills, over mini-ramps, into holes, and on the bonus nineteenth hole we tried to knock the ball into the centre of the target so we could win a free game. It looked easy but neither of us ever got it in. Maybe we weren’t trying very hard. On Friday nights I watched Weird Science, the TV series, in which one boy had the power to shoot beams of electricity from his fingertips. That was the dream! I spent the ad-breaks with my sketchpad, trying to figure out how to attach a battery to my arm and metal plates to my fingertips. I would have the power to zap people from a great distance. I knew Majid would be impressed.

On my birthday my father took me to Toys “R” Us and, with me running ahead, he pushed a huge trolley down the long aisles. We’d pick out new toys for me together. The toys I picked out exactly matched the figures on the Saturday morning cartoons: the Transformers; Optimus Prime (an all-American truck); and my favourite, Soundwave—a boom-box that twisted and unfolded into a robot with a shoulder-cannon, with a tape you could eject and transform into a prowling black panther. One year, my father gave me $100 to spend, and after that, there was no going back. I persuaded him to let me buy a model rocket kit. Every weekend we would go out into the local redwood park, set up the launch pad, walk back twenty paces, push a button, and watch mini-rockets fizz and streak into the sky. Near the end of the visit he took me to Marine World Africa USA to watch killer whales leap into the air and come down with a huge splash that just reached us even though we sat high in the bleachers because of my father’s camera. I got tanned, grew plump, had my hair cut short, played my hand-held Pinball video game, and then the two weeks were up. It was time to fly home.

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