Loser
“Nowhere 20. Nowhere When is it over?
Zinkoff doesn’t know for weeks. He is only dimly aware of things, dimly aware that as time goes by he seems to be seeing less and less of Binns. He rides to Binns’s house and Binns isn’t there. He phones. Binns says he has homework to do. He asks Binns this, asks him that. Binns always seems to say, “I guess not.” Even Binns’s voice over the phone seems to shrug, seems to be looking into the Beyond.
And then one spring day on the way to school Zinkoff sees a cluster of licorice spit marks on a sidewalk, and it makes him feel a little sad and remembery, and just like that he knows: It’s over.
And something new begins.
On that same spring day something happens to Zinkoff. An A happens to him. A’s almost never happen to Zinkoff, absolutely never in major tests. But this was a major test in Geography, his favorite subject, and somehow he has aced it. In fact, his A is the only A in class—a fact which Mrs. Shankfelder announces while holding up his test... paper for all the world to see.MoreLess
Zinkoff doesn’t know for weeks. He is only dimly aware of things, dimly aware that as time goes by he seems to be seeing less and less of Binns. He rides to Binns’s house and Binns isn’t there. He phones. Binns says he has homework to do. He asks Binns this, asks him that. Binns always seems to say, “I guess not.” Even Binns’s voice over the phone seems to shrug, seems to be looking into the Beyond.
And then one spring day on the way to school Zinkoff sees a cluster of licorice spit marks on a sidewalk, and it makes him feel a little sad and remembery, and just like that he knows: It’s over.
And something new begins.
On that same spring day something happens to Zinkoff. An A happens to him. A’s almost never happen to Zinkoff, absolutely never in major tests. But this was a major test in Geography, his favorite subject, and somehow he has aced it. In fact, his A is the only A in class—a fact which Mrs. Shankfelder announces while holding up his test... paper for all the world to see.MoreLess
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