Smack by Melvin Burgess

Author:Melvin Burgess
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 1996-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

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It’s a beautiful winter’s day.

Here in Bristol you don’t get much frost. The sea gets channelled up the Bristol Channel and keeps us all moist and cool. But these past couple of days it’s been really cold. Yesterday there were tiny little frost crystals on all the walls and the twigs and branches. There’s a lot of trees in this town. Today there was another frost and all yesterday’s crystals had more crystals growing up them, like fairy land. Ice flowers everywhere you look. I went out as soon as I realised. I stood looking for hours.

Me and Rob and Sal went out and made a slide down Richmond Road. It was already so slippery we had trouble walking up it. Once we got to the top, you could sit on a piece of cardboard and slide for miles down into the square at the bottom. We were at it all morning. We got Gemma out, and Col. Even Lily came out in the end. We forgot everything. Then this old black guy went past and started on at us for making the pathway dangerous and Lily lost her temper as usual.

“Son of the morgue! Sod off and die!” she yelled at the poor old bloke. Lily really knows how to turn a good insult.

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