Photo by RP Thomas
Thief
Every small school has a football
star—
Talent is no different in that
regard—
a kid who shines under the lights
on Friday nights, thrilling the
home town
crowd of moms and dads who yield
to this
sacred rite of passage, when 200
yards
rushing ensures the rightful purpose
of their lives—and the dad may
drink or
be an insurance man, and the mom
may
have a secret plan to escape the deadening
sameness of everything, having
once
dreamed of something else. Boomer’s
mother hadn’t a clue that her son
was sporting
failure in school—that his head
was filled with
schemes to steal things that
weren’t his.
Thus one night after the big
game, when Big
Mike and Rolo were away at Lizzie
DeLay’s,
Boomer and his friend Ben Browner stole
into the junkyard after midnight,
found the
mechanic’s stash and a few of his
meager
treasures, and trashed the bus
in their anger.
TS
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