coconut, part 2
Does anyone ever feel like they really fit in? Maybe so, for a moment or two, but as for me, I mostly feel just a bit out of place. This is the second installment of ‘Coconut’, a story about wanting to belong, but cherishing those shirt-tail parts of one’s self that come untucked at the most inopportune moments, exposing our true hearts.
We were halfway through our unit on Asia and Mrs. Gracie wrote ‘India’ on the board in her newly shaky script. So I sunk in my seat, waiting for what always happens to happen. Whenever they bring up India in school, everybody looks over at me. Me in my t-shirts and jeans from Regency Mall, right where their clothes come from. Me who like plain cheese pizza and hanging out with my friends. They stare as if waiting for the Real-Indian-Me to burst through like a song and dance in a Bollywood movie. As if I will start bobbing my head like Abu on The Simpsons or chanting with my eyes rolled way back. Even though I have lived here since I was a baby; I’ve known most of these kids since grade school, for Christ’s sake.
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Momma, Amber said…You told me, you promised me, it would be different once we moved here.
It’s not so easy, Mrs. C said roughly. she pulled off that visor, her red hair matted in a ring beneath it. Its not so easy, girlfriend, she repeated, and I felt like she meant this for me too—like I was included, even though I no longer wanted to be.
do what you want, she said. But its not so easy. You’ll see.
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The Quiet Girl raises her hand, straight and high from where she stands. She keeps clearing her throat, a small urgent sound, until Elise has to call on her.
-What about you, Miss Woodbrook, the Quiet Girl asks. What did you do this summer?
-Me?
-Yes, you.
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Here’s the start of a new story—the namesake of the collection I am podcasting. Thank you so much for listening.
Elise waits in the doorway of her new classroom, one foot in, one foot out, picking at the patch of sunburn on the tip of her nose. In the hallway, seventh grade students—some of them her students—stand at shiny red locker, unfolding fresh combinations…
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What would you like to be remembered for? Which things do you embellish, edit, or try to forgot altogether?
These are some of the questions I considered when writing the short story Legacy, The first story in The One You Can remember. It introduces the unifying event of the collection: the disappearance of eighth grader Sara Parson, and follows Principal Markus Jackson as he comes to term with this loss.
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