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Hap is still driving a pickup and drinking non-alcoholic beer. He says he thinks drinking is stupid, expensive, and unhealthy. He has hopes that he and Florida will get back together. He says he loves Leonard but sometimes has trouble with the homosexual aspect because he was taught as a child that homosexuality was perverted.
Hap's dad worked 12 hour days as a mechanic and foundry worker. He didn't have the time or energy to play ball with Hap but he would sit with him at night and study the stars. Sometimes he used the actual names and sometimes he taught the names that he had learned from his father. He knew Bonnie and Clyde and rode with them some but not on any of their crime sprees. He also met Pretty Boy Floyd and once saw Frank James. Hap is not sure if all that is true or not though. Hap last saw his father on Christmas many years ago and he died two weeks later of a heart attack.
Hap complains that he never gets to listen to what he likes on Leonard's radio. Hap likes 60s rock and roll, Leonard likes country. Hap actually likes some of what Leonard listens to but won't admit it to Leonard.
Hap had an Uncle Benny who loved to hunt. He once got lost in the woods and nearly died of exposure and mosquito bites but found his way out by following a dying longhorn. Hap does not like hunting for sport. He thinks that hunting is only permissable for finding food. Hap doesn't even like carrying a gun because he thinks they cause trouble but he is a fantastic shot. He does carry a bat in his truck, though. He took it from a guy who was planning to break Hap's legs with it. Even when he and Leonard are under attack and Hap has one of the men in his sights, he cant just shoot the guy. After the attack, Hap is laid up for three weeks and watches as a dead squirrel decomposes in his yard, he calls the squirrel Bobby.
Hap participated in some civil rights marches in the 60s and was beat up for it some not just for being in them but for being in them and being white.
He reads Michael Moorcock books and likes peanut patties.
Leonard likes his country music, Kentucky Headhunters and Dolly Parton are mentioned but he also likes Zydeco music.
Leonard loves his boyfriend Raul but they just don't fit together well except for sex. Raul calls him Lenny.
Leonard voted Republican.
He was in Jefferson, Texas in 1970.
Leonard has quite an arsenal, a shotgun, a couple of revolvers, and a couple of Winchester 30-30s are mentioned.
He has added a screened in porch to his house that Hap did not know about until he sees it in this book.
Raul-Leonard's Mexican boyfriend. He is from Houston. His parents love him but not the fact that he is gay. He is very thin, Hap calls him dessicated. He loves Gilligan's Island and has most of the episodes on tape. He also enjoys Dr. Pepper.
Charlie Blank-Police lieutenant frien of the boys. He has a new hobby, making hand shadows. He is very upset that Kmart is going out of business. He becomes lieutenant after Hanson goes into a coma. He also lights a cigarette off the smoldering hair of one of Leonard's neighbors after the third fire Leonard sets at the crack house.
Marve Hanson-Police lt. who convinces Hap and Leonard to go looking for Florida. He is still in love with his ex-wife and he loves westerns. He has a car wreck and goes into a coma during the events in the book. His ex-wife is Rachel and his daughter is JoAnna, a teacher in Tyler.
Mr. Trotter-Neighbor of Leonard's who admires thefires Leonard has started.
Jake-LaBorde Police officer.
Bobby Joe Soothe-Murderer who supposedly hanged himself in jail in Grovetown. Florida went there to find out more about the situation and does not return. He was the grandson of country blues guitarist L C Soothe.
Maude Rainforth-Runs the counter of the Grovetown Cafe and helps save the boys after a terrible beating.
Billy and Caliber-Her sons, also known as the Hippo Twins by Hap, and also calls them paisley shirt and bad moustache before he get to know them better.
Clinton and Leon aka scum eye-Guys that Leonard beat up and later befriended. They lost their jobs at the aluminum chair plant and are now watching Leonard's house while he and Hap are away.
Charlene-Bleached blonde, beehive styled police secretary in Grovetown.
Cantuck-Grovetown chief of police and major bigot although deep down he seems honorable. He is very fat and has a badly ruptured testicle. His wife loves Elvis. He had a son who dies of MD.
Gerald Matter-Friend of Hap's who owned a service station in LaBorde.
Tim Garner-Runs a filling station in Grovetown. He met and helped Florida and also helps the boys find a place to stay in town.
Mrs. Garner-Tim's mother who runs a trailer park and had let Florida stay there and now lets the boys move in. She lost a leg working in the lumber mill after her divorce.
Jackson Truman Brown-Tim's highly prejudiced father and big man in town. He pretty much calls the shots in town. He owns a Christmas tree farm, the lumber mill, and Tim's service station.
Reynolds-Police force of Grovetown,very large, very bigoted, and carries Tootsie Roll Pops in his pocket.
Ray Pierce aka bear or graysuit and Draighten aka elephant-Two of Brown's henchmen.
Bacon-Cook for Maude and hides out Hap and Leonard.
Ted Griffin-County sheriff.
Leroy-Klansman killed by Cantuck.
Kevin Riley-Another Klansman.
Mr. Swinger-Hap goes to work for him getting field ready for sweet potatoes.
Hap and Charlie have a long and funny discussion about what is racist and what is politically incorrect.
Grovetown is known for its racist tendencies. A woman was once raped, tarred and feathered, and her vagina was sewed shut by some civic leaders of the town.
Story takes place on the edge of the Big Thicket in East Texas, a particularly thick wooded area.
The subject of Christmas ants comes up quite often, the little ants that seem to show up around Christmas.
This takes place four years after the events of Savage Season.
Hap tells an awful joke about cowboys and another use for watermelon.
Leonard and his love for vanilla cookies comes up often but in this book the cookies are called wafers instead of vanilla cream. Charlie says that Leonard enjoys his cookies the way the dog in the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons enjoyed dog biscuits. I remember those cartoons from my childhood and that dog was hilarious in his enjoyment of his biscuits.
Book opens with Leonard's third fire on the crack house. I would like to hear more about the second one, but, oh well. Hanson threatens Hap and Leonard with jail unless they do him a favor. He wants them to go check on Florida. She has gone to a town called Grovtown to check on a suspected suicide in the jail there. Grovetown is well known for it Klan activities and Hanson is worried but since he and Florida have been fighting, he doesn't want to go check on her himself. Hap and Leonard go but are not well received. They are threatened, beaten, shot at, and nearly killed on more than one occasion. They barely escape with their lives only to return for a showdown after they heal.
From Hap;
He was frantic, like a visiting Methodist preacher who's just realized the head of the household had scooped up the last chicken leg.
Leonard was practicing arson and ass whipping.
Nervous as a goat at a barbecue.
I think he's a fart on the surface, but underneath he smells better.
Smoking like a dry cabbage with a cinder in it.
Florida was looking for a rat to ride and smelled one in Grovetown.
Sometimes you got to wonder if we're all part of the same human race.
He's too dumb to live.
Their heads looked as if they had been boiled and all the hair scraped off.
You could have put your fingers in their eyesockets and used their noggins to bowl a few sets.
Their faces were as warm and friendly as a switchblade.
They look as if on their day off they liked to sit around and wring the necks of puppies, maaybe stick coat hangers up cat's asses and toast them over a fire.
Cold as an Escimo's ass in an igloo outhouse.
You don't fuck with the Big Thicket.
Guys like that might piss on your windshield and let the air out of your tires as soon as look at you.
I had a hard on for the world and no place to put it.
They looked like human bookends for the Adult Western Novel shelf.
It did taste as if it was rubbed under someone's armpit.
Had a tavern tumor.
The sort of smile you give someone you know probably has a short time to live.
Man, I don't think that'll catch on.
Glistened like a fresh licked strawberry freeze pop.
Head hung as if he had just been forced to give all the dogs at the pound a blow job.
We're about as useful here as a spare pecker on a dead hog.
Alcohol is not noted for making someone smarter.
Tighter than a Republican's wallet.
He had a look like a man who'd seen the elephant and seen it well.
He wouldn't get in bed with you unless it was to tie you to it and set it on fire.
Isn't this one hell of a special Christmas
He might as well have been pissing on an oil well fire.
Dropping sugar in front of me until he got me close enough to whack with a swatter.
Hot as devil farts.
All I know, I got from the movies.
You say shit, she acts like you just gave her a mouthful.
Looked weak as a pup with distemper.
Liver was good if you closed your eyes and rinsed your mouth and ate ice cream afterwards.
If there was two feet of water within a hundred miles of me, I'd find a way to fall nose forward into it.
He had a look on his face like we'd just caught him jacking off to a grainy poto of a shaved dog's butt.
Next to picking corn out of pig shit with tweezers, it's the most boring thing in the world.
From Leonard;
I'm starting to sound like a knee-jerk liberal asshole. I been around you too long.
Your mama shit a turd, put a suit on it, and named it you.
Is that your ass following you or are you pulling a trailer?
I don't know if I want to shit or wind my watch.
He was so tight when he blinked his asshole turned inside out.
Hey, it's your dick.
They're proof positive you ought not to let people shoot baskets with your head.
Let's go to Burger King and have breakfast. I feel expensive.
I whupped them like I was dustin a rug.
I'm not going to stand in a separate line just because I got a better tan than someone else.
Macho has been turned into a bad word by turds who act like beasts.
Hope you brought yourself a sack lunch, cause you gonna be here all night.
I didn't say I was the Funniest Nigger in the World, I said I was the Smartest Nigger in the World.
He still has all his Roy Rogers cap guns and stuff.
Hoping to drop your anchor in her ocean?
Sex is always in one way or another the turd in the stew.
You know, Hap, you've never sent me a valentine.
I been clutching at farts but we got to clutch at something.
I been thinking. Careful now, don't hurt yourself.
From Charlie;
Acting like he's got a weight tied to his dick all the time.
When I lose a family heirloom, I go get drunk.
I can't think of nothing I 'd want so bad I'd drink wee wee out of a fruit jar.
Leonard would wade through the fires of Hell with a hand bucket half full of creek water if he thought he was doing the right thing.
He'll be lucky to get a night job shaking doors at the Kroger.
You say something don't quite set right with him, he'll burp a turd and fart his teeth.
Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet.
Hap's daddy-You end up having to hit someone, don't just hit him once and don't just hit him to get his attention.
Cantuck-You're about to be the Most Ass-Whupped Nigger in the world.
I don't give a flying shit if she's his Siamese twin and she left town with his left nut in her pocket.
Tim-He'll make the music crawl up your butt and play with your kidneys.
So spicy, you eat one, you'll be able to do a pushup with your dick.
It comes a good rain you can catch cat fish in the commode.
Bacon-You be stiff as a young bull's dick, only not as happy.
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Medium: Acrylic on Wood Panel
Size: 16″ x 30″
One of my favourite subjects to paint are older tugboats. Loaded full of character and built to work hard, speed and sleek lines be damned. Most of these tugboats are as unique in their overall appearance as we are and take on a personality all their own. Talk to anyone who spent their life working on the water and they speak of these boats using the same terms used to describe any living breathing object with free will. This individual personality of these subjects is what I try to capture with my artwork. Most of us have owned cars that have a temperament all their own that we learn how to live with like you would a roommate or significant other. I'm convinced our old van only gets to the top of most hills as a result of Cheri's encouragement and cheers. I have a 1961 Land Rover that I have owned for 16 years and feels like a cherished friend that I have shared many adventures with. It's terribly anthropomorphic but I am sure most of you know exactly what I mean!A couple of years ago my dad and I took a road trip to Oregon as there was an International Marine Artwork show that I had a painting accepted in. We spent a few days touring the coast looking for interesting subjects with these two paintings having been captured from that trip. The first painting titled 'Coos Bay Tugs' was inspired while watching these two beautiful tugs positioning this ship in the harbour. There were actually three tugs, but the third was out of scene working at the stern of the ship. I was immediately drawn in by the size of the ship and when composing the scene I wanted to capture the ship in a fashion that emphasised this. By having the ships bow fill the canvas it really makes the ship feel massive and sets up a nice dark backdrop to capture the tugboat behind. The sun was breaking through the clouds and really lit up these tugs. The contrast between the dark shadows of the ship and bright colours on the tugs highlighted this nicely. Although highly detailed, I feel that it is the simplicity of this scene that makes the painting work. From across the room it is immediately recognizable and captures a feeling of movement by the small bow wave and puff of exhaust created as the tug cuts across the bow of the ship to help his mate push from the other side. It is a lengthy process to paint these tugboats as there is so much equipment on deck, but the hard work is always worth it.
Medium: Acrylic on Wood Panel
Size: 18″ x 27″
On our return home we stopped for the night in Port Angeles. Along the waterfront, we were able to sneak down into the shipyard where we stumbled up on this gorgeous old retired boat. It was in that perfect state that I try to find where it has weathered to a condition full of interesting textures with a myriad of colours, but not so far that you feel bad for its current state. What I love is the rich character that is seen in boats like these. If one could, the stories that this ship may be able to tell about the life it has lived full of adventure and hard work, would be fantastic to listen too. Akin to listening to the fascinating stories told by your grandparents about the hardships experienced in their lifetime. This scene captures that feeling perfectly for me. I wanted this painting to clearly be about this old boat and nothing else. That solitary feeling was emphasised by leaving no trace of other life to confound this. The feeling of the hazy sky with the rich and warm golden grass set up a nice and unique backdrop for this boat. I left the ship off to the far left side of the canvas to help capture the feeling of loneliness and to emphasis the vast ocean behind. For me, the biggest enjoyment when painting images like this is the chance to capture so many different textures, whether it be flaking paint, rusty metal or wind blown grass. Titled 'Hard Life' this reflects the boat being out of water and 'on the hard' as the saying goes, as well as the obvious hard life she must have led. On my next trip through Port Angeles, I will be sure to return and see how this old boat is doing. I wonder what her future holds for her. To the right person with a ton of enthusiasm she may just feel the waves splash on her hull once again.
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Marco A. Vásquez. Steven Isn't Normal. ISBN: 13: 978-1-888205-51-0 $22.95.
Steven isn't normal. But, then again, nobody is. Still, ask anyone, and they'd tell you that Steven is retarded—because he is. Steven is a retard by definition and by practice. Mostly, he is a retard by circumstance. It's an epithet given to Steven by his community: his neighbors, his peers, his family. It is a title that has been embedded in his psyche—a designation that has dictated his absurd existence. This absurdity is exemplified by his determination to fulfill his quest: the killing of his mother. Steven is convinced that his mother is plotting the elimination of the one thing that Steven holds dear: his bottle collection—the hundreds of bottles, from which he has meticulously removed the labels—which he has perfectly sorted and aligned against a secluded wall near the railroad tracks. On his journey, Steven's chaotic family history is revealed, as Steven encounters an array of grotesque characters that, in their efforts to reinforce the label that burdens Steven, they exhibit their own retardation that has been, until then, successfully camouflaged and ignored by their own complacency.
Marco A. Vásquez' writing is always authentic, fresh, and steeped in pathos. It never fails to surprise with its insights into the darkest and most humorous moments of ordinary people . . . He's one of my favorite writers.
—John D. Payne, Professor of English
Only a born poet could do what Marco A. Vásquez has done with Steven Isn't Normal. This novel is as much about voice and what a master can do with language as it is about his fascinating story and characters. His work sings like Gwendolyn Brooks' fiction, but it is rooted in the complex and ominous world of Steven's East Los Angeles.
—John Brantingham, author of The Greens of Sunset and Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods.
Marco A. Vásquez, a cross between William Faulkner and Stephen King and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has spun a fabulous, sometimes freaky yarn full of lurid drama, violence, and sex. In this evocative, sock-it-to-you, no-holds-barred Los Angeles "Barrio Gothic," the young, talented author has masterfully plotted a novel written with powerfully placed prose about another world of modern, previously untold sounds and furies that will shock and rock your soul and chill and roll your bones.
—Joan Jobe Smith, founding Editor of PEARL and Bukowski Review; author of Charles Bukowski: Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women and Tales of An Ancient GoGo Girl
Marco A. Vásquez's first novel Steven Isn't Normal is a bit poignant, a bit macabre, a bit absurd, a bit abnormal. It is one man-boy's quest to find the line of social acceptability in a world that is far from normal; it's a bit of an underrepresented sub-culture of "Americana"—more like a crumb than a bit, but when you taste it you will want it all.
—Timothy Matthew Perez, Author of The Savagery of Bone
Marco A. Vásquez has taken on a subject that demands knowledge, sensitivity, intelligence, narrative and stylistic skills, and versatility. Marco was amply prepared by personality and education for this venture, and the result is a complex and compassionate tale of the highest order, deserving of a broad and sophisticated readership. It is an accomplishment of an award-winning excellence.
—Gerald Locklin, Professor Emeritus of English, Author of A Simpler Time, A Simpler Place
Steven Meresko, the main character of Marco A. Vásquez's novel, is strange and funny and sad all at the same time, much like those characters in Being There and Bless Me Ultima. Vásquez has written a novel in clear and vivid prose, an entertaining story about a curious and individual Chicano boy and his dysfunctional family, who live in the same, very recognizable side of town where we all live. It is a very enjoyable journey.
—Rafael Zepeda, the author of Desperados and Tao Driver and Selected Poems, is a professor at California State University, Long Beach.
Marco A. Vásquez presents us with a riveting narrative of barrio life, social conditions, and conflict. Steven, the protagonist, does not appear normal or rational, but then the characters that surround Steven's life seem equally challenged and defy then the definition of normality. The account of normality articulated in this compelling narrative is flouted by the ways in which being normal is carried out by the other participants in this barrio story. Vásquez leads us to conclude that the negotiation of normality is a precarious route for a social group in a barrio setting. Articulations of a yearning to be normal are replete with tensions; there are expressions of resistance, resignation, violence, and culture. Despite claims by some contemporary social theorists that diversity is the new normality, the accepted constraints of variance are limited for those who have been segregated for a lifetime in a barrio.
—Roberto Cabello-Argandoña, Editor. LatinoBooks.Net
Marco A. Vásquez received his MFA in Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Standing at the Corner of Trouble and Sacrifice, Tripping Over My Machismo, East L. Alien, and As We Go Along, which was edited by Gary Soto as part of his Chicano Chapbook Series. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated author whose work has been featured in magazines throughout the country. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two boys.


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Nominations must come from currently enrolled Cameron students. Any high school teacher or counselor in the state of Oklahoma is eligible for the award. The nominating student cannot be related to the nominee.
A nomination form can be obtained in the Office of Public Affairs (Administration Building, Room 150), at CU-Duncan.
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In the beginning is the wish: Just a little wish that begins in a seemingly harmless way and ends up ruining an entire life.
"I wish I have a boy!"
Why? So the discrimination happens even before the child is born. Even before conception. That wish hangs around in the air, around the house, around the family and begins to create grounds for male chauvinism to bloom in a natural manner.
Crores of Indian men wish for a son instead of a daughter.
The next travesty is that murders start taking place inside the womb itself.
In India it is banned to know the sex of the child. In India abortion is banned.
But since the desire for a son is so strong, that law remains only on paper.
One small female is killed inside another bigger female: One dies and the other suffers.
And the male couldn't care one little bit.
Even when the girl child is born, there's always female infanticide, which actually should be called "Murder of a baby girl in cold blood".
Some reports put this number in the millions. These are millions of murders that are never ever reported, charge sheeted or punished.
There are millions of male criminals who have forcefully made millions of females their accomplices.
For those who make it into this world unscathed, there's discrimination at each and every stage.
The 5 Ws and H for the growing girl child…
This is Who you are.
This is What you are supposed to do.
This is Where you should never go.
This is When you should just shut up.
This is Why you are inferior to a boy.
This is How you are supposed to behave at all times.
Women are seen suffering all around and that is sub-consciously internalized.
Nothing changes when the girl grows up. There is discrimination in the society, in the work place and on the streets.
The attitudes are also patriarchal.
If the streets are unsafe for women at night, instead of demanding for greater security, more police patrols, more 24 hour transport and services and more action against offenders, the demand is always for more women to stay at home, for them to wear more traditional clothes, to wear less make-up and not to go to pubs and discos!
Only a brutally chauvinistic society could say a thing like: She asked for it!
Then there's the whole issue of "eve teasing". Which moron came out with such a harmless sounding term? It should actually be called "sexual harassment" plain and straight. Bollywood promotes it, the police ignore it and the Indian male freely participates in it knowing that he will get away in 99.9% of the cases.
Then take the issue of rape itself. It is not just rape. The victim is assaulted. She is humiliated. Her modesty is outraged. She is almost killed. Even without actual rape that itself should get the attacker 20 years in prison. Add rape to that and you understand why so many people are demanding capital punishment for rapists.
But that's when the ordeal begins. The police couldn't care less and may harass the victim further in their own way. There's further harassment through the long judicial process. The rival lawyer may know that his client is guilty. He may know that the girl is innocent. And yet he won't hold back from launching such a brutal cross-examination, that it may break the will of the victim forever.
The society is no better and may look the other way at the rapist while treating the rape survivor as if she is some sort of criminal.
Rape survivors in India usually face three rapes.
Actual rape by the rapist. Virtual rape by the State. Virtual rape by the society.
That's the most brutal reality of the Indian system.
Despite getting Independence in 1947, having a woman Prime Minister in 1966 and liberalizing (economically, that is) in 1991, we largely remain a patriarchal and chauvinistic society.
The US is a superpower in many ways, as some surveys show.
For one at fertility clinics, the demand for girls is far higher than that of boys.
Secondly, more than half the women in that country choose not to marry, preferring to be independent and single!
More From this Author:
A note to the dented and painted Indian woman
Theek Nahi Hai!: Open letter to Manmohan Singh
Long live the Indian Revolution!
8 things that Modi has triumphed against...
Gujarat was lost in the Rajiv years
The author is a Bangalore-based journalist and blogger.
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Here at Dunelm, we know that finding the right dining tables for your property can completely transform your space, and that's why we've brought with each other a wide range to help you find the excellent match. There are in fact a wide variety of height adjustable tables on the market place these can be raised and usually expanded to dining height when you want to chow down. Most of these dining tables feature a rectangular table at the centre while a handful of consist of circular tables , specially in the range of four-seater dining table sets. Whilst limited space will require some specific considerations, a fantastic, comfortable dining space is still possible.
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Generally evoking a sense of togetherness, warmth and heartiness, dining space furniture is not some thing that you generally just acquire, use for 5 years and then throw out. For a great way to check out all the kitchen tables that you could possibly purchase for your kitchen and dining space, just hit the Web for some on the web buying. There are unique kitchen tables offered in the industry, which, also have storage possibilities for keeping cutlery and , if you are asking yourself about what styles and designs to select from for your kitchen dining table, there are a a lot of choices. Dining chairs started as narrow ridge forms with higher backs popular for such events.


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The epitome of pretty! This gorgeous chiffon top has a petal sleeve and a rhinestone and pearl lined neckline. Guaranteed to turn heads!
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MENTOR: Gail Nall
ALTERNATE: Amy Kinzer
CATEGORY/GENRE: MG Contemporary
PITCH: When twelve-year-old Beatrice becomes homeless after her father disappears, her family moves into a rundown hotel. Bee finds solace in the misfit group of drifters she meets, embarks on a search for her father, and fights to be seen in a world where she's invisible.
I have a secret. I keep it buried inside, stashed away in the place where heartaches live. I've never told anyone my secret because I'm afraid it will implicate me as an accomplice. The last words my dad said to me were, "Bee, there's s simple law of physics that says in a big enough crowd, everyone becomes invisible."
I didn't think anything of it at the time because my dad was a magician and I thought it was his lame attempt at a metaphor. He said those words and disappeared. Poof! He was gone. Just like one of the magic tricks he performed at birthday parties. After he vanished Mom couldn't pay the landlord and now we live in our car.
Dad's not the only one who can disappear. My mom says we have to stay out of sight. She's worried if CPS finds out where we live they will take me and my kid brother away. Being invisible is easy since magic runs in my family. The trick is to scrunch myself up, as tight as I can. I make my shoulders small and fold myself up so no one can see me. I'm so good at it that I could perform the trick in the circus.
I sit in the passenger seat of my dad's old Chevy watching vehicles pull into the Fantastic Fun Park! The happiest place on Earth! If anyone gets too close to our car, I hold still so I blend in with the upholstery. My brother sits in the backseat with the sleeping bag pulled over his head.
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Pitch Wars ALT: VB-11 - THE INVISIBLE GIRL
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