Use Your Imagination! by Kris Bertin

Author:Kris Bertin [Bertin, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771087520
Goodreads: 43299108
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Published: 2019-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

The last time I saw them, it was maybe two weeks until the last day of school. They either didn’t see me in between the trees by my house, or ignored me.

They were all wearing that same blue track suit, all jogging down the street at sundown. I had no idea what they were doing, what they were training for, but it occurred to me that of the three of them, Rosenbaum looked the most like me. It had never dawned on me before, but we were the same height and build, had similar hair, demeanours. If I were down there, if I were in a funny blue track suit, I’d be him.

They didn’t notice me, or my spear, which was bright yellow on account of the electrical tape I’d covered it with, which made it possible to find it again when I threw it at a deer, and missed. I didn’t feel the decision being made to throw it at them. Whatever thing in my body that’s supposed to stop me from doing it is gone. It’s a function of the body but not the spirit.

Later, I imagined that my actions had brought them into a new era, that they would become real, true friends or else be rid of each other as a result. This was a thought I went back and forth with for years, an idea I had difficulty keeping balanced, because it felt dishonest in that it alleviated that my guilt, though it still could have been true, even if it was self-serving. Eventually the memory hardened and became flat, became a fact that couldn’t be manipulated any longer. A picture, like in a book:

A projectile, hung in the air above them, on a perfect descending arc.

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