My Almost Epic Summer

144 Pages·2011·0.62 MB·English

by  Griffin Adele

001
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Copyright Page

I Am Fired
Something Turns Up
I Do Not Get to Think It Over
I Receive an Impractical E-mail, and Then a Better One
I Take Fate into My Own Hands
A Beginning
Little Lainie
Some Cold Water
I Have a Small Realization
Lainie Astonishes Me
I Am Slightly Slighted
I Make the Acquaintance of Starla
Affirmed and Reminded
I Make an Impact
The Morse House
Mischief
Two Postings
A Loss
A Greater Loss
A Small Reprimand
A Bad Angel
Longing and Disappointment
My Mother Makes Up Her Mind About Me
An Unexpected Request
I Attempt to Explain Myself
My Resolution, and Its Sequel
Intrigue
Preoccupations, New and Old
I Am Given a Reprieve
Visitors
I Mess Up
Reality Gives Me a Nudge
A Heroic Twist
Affirmed and Resolute
I Break My Resolution
I Become an Almost Heroine
Foreshadowing happens in Epics, but never in real
life.
In real life, I knew exactly what my summer was changing into—unrelenting
hours of playing I Spy with Lainie Prior and telling Evan for the umpteenth time
to wash his muddy sneakers, feet, or legs before coming indoors, while counting
off the days until school started. Which would then begin a whole new
countdown to the last day of school. I wonder when I can stop my countdowns? I
guess not until the day I take off.
But I guess things could be worse. Five hundred years ago I’d be babysitting
my own kids.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
With special thanks to Lisa Brown, Katie Hancock, Matt Heller, Sara Kreger,
Charlotte Sheedy, Geoff Watson, and especially Nancy Paulsen.