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Colin Hinckley

Animals

Submitted by colin_hinckley on October 23, 2008 - 14:51.

Animals

By Colin Hinckley
Brattleboro Union High School, Grade 11

** Language alert

I knew it was trouble from the moment I saw them. The three of them, standing on the edge of the baseball diamond, clustered together, laughing like hyenas. I was on the other side of the field, huddled around the adults watching over us, their jowls drooping, like benevolent buzzards. I never strayed far from their wary eye. I was small, and they could only see so far.
I stood guardedly by the bleachers, all my friends inexplicably absent from recess and me orphaned on a sea of AstroTurf. Later I would discover there had been a field trip of which I was unaware. The second grade class had gone to the zoo.

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