Core. Kassten Alonso
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rasped off into deeper cover.
Hey man, Cam said.
He walked out on the diving plank. The plank bobbed some with each step. He curled his toes over the end. Mats of water fern and glossy clouds of duckweed floated on the water. Round the pond purple loosestrife grew even thicker than last year. And no fingerlings hatched this season at all. The beaver pond was dying. His folks were dead. Everything shall be salted with fire.
Cam clapped his hands and said, Hey man come on this is dumb you got to go. Missing your prom’s bad mojo ain’t you heard the news? It’s like a unfinished chapter type thing. You’ll be unfinished and the rest of your life’ll be in limbo. Come on man you want to go. You can wear your old man’s tux and take your Aunt Roxy. She ain’t too bad. She’s what twentyfive, thirty? Come on man. Say you’ll go.
He raised his arms out to the sides. He took a breath and jumped up and down till the plank dipped heavy under him. Drops of water flipped off his skin. His head already hurt from the sun and hurt worse when Cam called his name. His knees came apart and he caught the plank wrong and the plank hucked him. He fell up in the air. His back arched so his feet went over his head. His calves slapped the water and the water made a plunging sound in his ears. It was cold, and for a second he thought he might burst to steam and float away. Instead pondweeds brushed on his skin and he opened his eyes. Bubbles floated up all round him. How last night he skinned out between the two roses and the sweat and smoke made him blind as he ran for the trees. Howthe windows busted and the flames were like hands that clawed their way up out the basement of the church. How he looked down and saw the cuffs of his jeans were on fire and he thought to let it be till his skin was all black on him, his bones burnt up with heat.
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