Why I Bring a Bag Lunch Now

Tom Gerencer tgerencer@yahoo.com c. 5,000 words Why I Bring a Bag Lunch Now They were serving cheesy walnut peppers again, which in my experience is never a good way to start a Thursday afternoon.  I tried to get Jinx — the school bully and a guy with nothing you could really call a neck — to steal my lunch money after second period, but he was having none of it. “Keep it,” he said, after I’d walked by him for the third time, jingling the contents of my pockets in what I had hoped was an enticing way.  “I can last ’til I get home.” I wished I could’ve said… Read More

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