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Justice

JUNE 1999.The theater at the Walt Whitman Auditorium at Brooklyn College was electric. Parents in the back, cameras and camcorders up waving signs and bouquets of flowers. Lights flashing at the graduation ceremony happening up front. A sea of white and red graduation caps and gowns, a huge banner hung on stage saying, "Congratulations, Taft Graduates!" The school band sat in the orchestra pit.

Last Updated : 2020-10-24

Shade On The Bus

JULY 1999Brooklyn in the summer is hot, humid. It smells like sweat, and it rained every Thursday afternoon like clockwork. The hardest part of her morning was missing

Last Updated : 2020-10-24

The Coffee Shop Oath

Weeks later Mrs. Aiello was out and there was no substitute. The solution? The administrators herded the class to the campus library. And once again Erica and Victoria disappeared. Alone, again, Bridget sat at a table with some of the more agreeable classmates. It was the first she was seeing some of them since the summer started. They were spread around the stacks and communing at the tables, floating back forth as the conversation changed. The Hasidic man, Mr. Welk stood behind t

Last Updated : 2020-10-24

The First Day, I Think It Was A Thursday

"Imagine having to do this every day, for the next four years?!" Mom was just loud enough for the large crowd to hear. Bridget tried to play it down. It was the first day of the school year. First day of ninth grade. First day of high school. Mom looked at her watch and down Flushing waiting for the B43 bus to arrive. It was ticking towards eight am. There was a large crowd, at least twenty-five deep of students, parents, and adults on their way to work or errands.

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

What's In A Nickname

Bridget was now outside, under bleachers behind the school. Elton and Hugo were like Lois and Clark, leading them out the 450 Complex to the back staircase, past the cafeterias, down the back corridor, just passed the pool and to the art studio. The teacher, Mr. Febus, a built man that chewed gum really hard opened the rolling gate to the athletic field. No security guards in sight, they walked through the tennis courts and held court at an opening under the bleachers. The bell rang for lunch but no one moved. One by one, everyone got a cigarette and lit up. Beatrix handed Bridget an Eve cigarette.

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

Uniformly Different

School had been in session three weeks and the administration began denial of entry for not wearing the uniform. Agatha hoped and wanted that it would fail. Uniforms in public school? They want be private schools so bad. It was after ten as Bridget came home the first time. Mr. Morales was turning away nearly half the student body. Most student didn't even bother to show up. Jet set down her keys and put her bag on the bench. She scheduled to finish breakfast, brew some coffee, get

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

Rule The School

The swim and football teams debuted their new gear. The football jackets were black wool blend bodies and Carolina blue leather sleeves. Each member had his number and position stitched on the arm. The swim team got black sweatshirts with SWIM stitched down the right sleeve in Carolina blue and their last name stitched in white on the left.We also debuted our "team jacket"— sunglasses. The girls' version had a rhinestone heart on the bottom left on the left lens. It took a few weeks but after the jacket idea was vetoed several times by Bea and I, we agreed upon the glasses last Friday afternoon when Luna and

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

Smells Like Teen Spirit Week

Williamsburg Campus kicked off “Spirit Week.” The three student governments met up to organize theme days. The Girls were selected with Nadia, a petite girl with long hair and mint green eyes to represent the Freshmen Class. It'd been the works since school started and it the teams were doing really well so to further boost morale, the principals of all three schools wanted to reward their students. Monday was Retro Day and the girls dressed up as the Pink Ladies. Luna as Jan, Marty as her personal idol, Marty and Jet as Rizzo.

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

Lisa Provolone Time

"What do you mean I can't go to the game and the dance," Bridget whined in front of the stove trying to make rice for the fifth or sixth time. "You can attend one," Mom said, as she tallied up the household bills. "You have homework to do and I don't like the idea of you going to a dance with friends. They always end with a shootout." She poured a cup of coffee from the coffee maker into her red Best Mom Ever mug. She took a sip to sooth her impending headache. Aga

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

The Pleasure Principle

"Ten minutes, and we're coming after you," expressed Bea in the girls' bathroom finishing her lip gloss. It was the time honored tradition where groups of girls flock to the bathroom to check makeup, pee, gossip, and compare notes. As soon as the ended, I beelined straight for the girls to discuss his offer. "Ten? Twenty," Helena argued. She swiped some cheap pink lip gloss over her lips and puckered. Her eyes met mine. She had that usual condescending look. I paid it no mind because I was going nuts inside. A boy wanted to be alone with me. Six months ago boys didn't even want to be in the same room with me.

Last Updated : 2020-11-17

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