“Bodies Are the Strongest Conductors” by James Robert Herndon

A story by alum James Robert Herndon (fiction, ’11) appears at Strange Horizons:

Lumpy gave me a gift today.

“It’s raining dinosaur piss out here,” he said. “Let me in. Your mom went to work, I saw her get on the bus.”

Mom would find out. She’d cry, which would make me cry, but I had to let him in. Lumpy was my only friend. We were only friends at recess even though he lived down the street, and now that Mom had pulled me out of school on doctor’s orders, I felt lucky to be hearing from him at all.

 

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