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- Title: Burying Jeremy Green (Short Story)
- Author : Shenandoah
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
Description
On the playground, we held pretend funerals for Jeremy Green. The boys fought over who got to play the corpse and who got to play the preacher. The girls fought over who got to play his wife and who wouldn't have to play his three-year-old daughter. The other roles we created: his overbearing father, his frazzled mother, his irritating aunt, his twin sister who got straight A's in school and never did anything wrong, his bitter younger brother, his loyal best friend, his pregnant lover. The rest of us, the quiet ones, sat back and watched service after service, reenacted for clarity about who this guy was, why he ended his life and why he chose us for the witnesses. The fifth graders were the last to enjoy recess at Sojourner Elementary. Our school had three fifth-grade classes, and on the playground we divided: the soccer kids ran up and down the center and everyone else scattered around the edges. Before Jeremy came, we played jump rope or cat's cradle. We sat along the fence and told fortunes with paper we folded into cootie catchers. We chewed gum, forbidden in classrooms and held contests to see who could blow the biggest bubble. On the playground, we played drinking games with extra cartons of chocolate milk, the rules for which we'd learned from our older siblings. We forced each other to tell secrets and made lists of things we had to do before we died. We learned to wrap our lips around cuss words and wrote our names in the ground with broken glass. This was how Jeremy Green found us.