Bloody bones novel6/1/2023 ![]() At Christmas time, when the classmates anonymously exchanged presents, Carlton’s gaily-wrapped contribution was a collection of America’s best horror stories, which went to Kendra. When Carlton spoke in class, he held a book up to his mouth to try to cover his breath. His classmates joked about his bad breath. He always wore a Batman t-shirt, jeans, and white high-top canvas basketball shoes, and – oh yeah, his breath stank. He was an only child, slightly hyperactive, bored stiff with school. Miss Bird was never known to date any man after that tragic affair.Ĭarlton kept the story alive by repeating it to every new kid in school. He never came out of the resulting coma but died a lingering death, a mere vegetable withering away beyond recognition. Filbert was distracted by his lover’s voice, and the ball beaned him in the head. One day at a game, so the story went, Miss Bird, who religiously attended all the games, had called out Filbert’s name right as a ball was bearing down on him. The word around school was that she had been in love with a minor-league baseball player, a catcher named Filbert. She was single, in her mid-twenties, and the boys were in agreement that she was attractive, though perhaps not “a babe”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Bird was their 6th grade teacher at Shepherdstown Middle School. On a Wednesday in October, in the school cafeteria, Carlton said to his friend Bobby, “I wonder what Miss Bird looks like naked?” Bobby replied that he had just been thinking the same thing. ![]()
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