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• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  A Trout for Life

  

  By peppershmepper, Wallingford, CT

  I couldn’t even open my damn eyes without water spraying them right back shut. I only saw sharp flashes o’ color, the vivid yella life jackets, the green buoys lashin’ back and forth o’er port and starboard, the clouded, dark, swollen ocean heavin’ over my baby’s tender gunnels. The wave...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Chocolate-Covered Marshmallows

  

  By peppershmepper, Wallingford, CT

  “Monkey, a letter came for you!” “For me?”(int.) Sophie raced into the kitchen, yanked the card from her mother’s hand, and read it aloud, “Ms. Sophie Nagle, you are cordially invited to attend the 7th grade Twinkle Twinkle Ball from 7’oclock to half-past 9 on May the 26th. Please...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Wonderfully Weird

  

  By peppershmepper, Wallingford, CT

  Peabody School runs from Kindergarten through 8th grade. As part of its candidate assessment regime, the school requires that Kindergarten applicants take a test that measures brain capacity. I suppose my five-year old brain must have radiated some promise of qualification, as I was one of the eleve...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  The Omnipotent Exterior

  

  By peppershmepper, Wallingford, CT

  “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” When people browse in Barnes and Noble, in addition to looking a book’s cover, they usually will read the blurb on the back of the book. Congratulations, people. We have employed the literal side of this idiom. What we have failed to do, however, is act on ...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  Take a Bow "Gentlemen"

  

  By peppershmepper, Wallingford, CT

  There are but a few steps in becoming a popular prep-school male nowadays. You should have a shaggy mane that you wash at least once a week to maintain its flow and shine. You should play lacrosse. You should never do your homework. You should dip tobacco. You should always put “bros before hos”...