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FOR MY BROTHER

CONTENTS

Title Page
Dedication
DAY 1
CHAPTER ONE: TINKS
CHAPTER TWO: SPACE BLANKETS
CHAPTER THREE: METAL GATE
DAY 2
CHAPTER FOUR: EIGHT POINT TWO
CHAPTER FIVE: INK
CHAPTER SIX: THE GATE RATTLER
CHAPTER SEVEN: BLOOD TYPES

CHAPTER SEVEN: BLOOD TYPES
CHAPTER EIGHT: WATER
DAY 3
CHAPTER NINE: AIR HORN
CHAPTER TEN: MAMA DUCK
DAY 4
CHAPTER ELEVEN: CEREMONY
CHAPTER TWELVE: ELECTIONS
DAY 5
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: GREENWAY 2.0
DAY 6
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE POWER OF PANCAKES
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: MY FOOD AISLE AT NIGHT
DAY 7
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A LADY
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: RUM
DAY 8
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: I MEET PAINKILLERS
CHAPTER NINETEEN: LICE AND OTHER VERMIN
DAY 9
CHAPTER TWENTY: WE GET HIGH
DAY 10
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE HATCH
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: BREAKFAST WITH

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: BREAKFAST WITH
OUTSIDERS
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: MR. APPLETON’S STORY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: BUSES HAVE TYPES, TOO
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: HANDS
DAY 11
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: “EVACULATION”
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: THE BIG SEND-OFF
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE BIG SEND-OFF: PART
TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: BLOOD, BLEACH, AND
LIES
CHAPTER THIRTY: A KISS
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: RECONNAISSANCE
DAY 12
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: JAKE TV
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: THE BUS
Acknowledgments
Copyright

CHAPTER ONE

TINKS
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you hurdle down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.
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As I raced down the driveway I heard my mom yell for my brother, Alex. His bus was coming down Park Trail