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Sometimes, God, summer weighs on me like wet ropes. My lungs seize trying to have the most fun in the world before school starts. September is Hell and we all die and go there after Labor Day. Yesterday, I saw my English teacher stuffing her bright red face with pink cotton candy. She is supposed to be reading books all summer, not coming here—wearing her hair down and eating the same things I do. I felt like the boardwalk was going to explode one splinter at a time under my feet, even though yesterday was the kind of day my cousins draw with a smiley face sun. I whipped a grape Pixie Stick out of my back pocket and downed it, but that only made me feel sicker. I carry Pixie Sticks for emergencies, and because I steal them.
Publication Date
2011
Keywords
prayer narrative
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Religion
Recommended Citation
Fadden, Christine, "God in Ocean City, New Jersey" (2011). On Earth As It Is. 20.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/20
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"God in Ocean City, New Jersey" was originally published at On Earth As It Is.
Image by Matthew Simmons.