Aftermath (A True Story)

by emma jo_234

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I wasn’t sure why I was so upset. I hadn’t witnessed the boy getting burned – I’d been way down the hall.

So how come it bothered me so much?

People around me found the story amusing. A girl asked if she would get in trouble for making a shirt that said, “I Heart Firecrackers.”

But I didn’t find it amusing at all. And my father didn’t either when I gave him a letter that teachers had passed out at school.

And even now it feels like something that belongs in someone else’s life. You read all those newspaper headlines about kids getting hurt or killed at school, and you feel sad and all, but you imagine it happening to people you know and care about.

So now, just like before, I was asking for answers. And I wasn’t getting them.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Aftermath (A True Story)

    Cat the Dancing Mouse's Buddy Icon Cat the Dancing Mouse

    Posted 2 months ago

    I’m so sorry. That must be horrid. I can’t imagine, even to people I loathe, getting seriously injured. It puts into perspective how one day someone can be there, one day they aren’t, and that it could happen to ANY of us.
    Oh, and I’m back Emma :)
    —Cat the Dancing mouse

  2. Aftermath (A True Story)

    Apostrophe 's Buddy Icon Apostrophe

    Posted 2 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    well written story. Subject matter deep and emotional. Beautifully illustrated position on the topic.

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