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October 2017
At school, Joey looked around for Sylvester but
his seat was still empty when the teacher called roll.
He guessed eating “disease-carrying rodents,” as his
mother called them, had finally caught up with him.
Joey came back to his desk early after lunch.
Sometimes when his dog was locked up in his cage
all day, a few minutes of running around outside
would calm right down. Maybe marbles were like
dogs and they just didn’t like to be cooped up. But
when he unzipped his backpack and looked inside,
the marble was nowhere to be found. Only the
chewing gum and the penny were at the bottom of
the bag. He turned the backpack upside down and
shook it, but it was no use. The marble was gone.
He felt his stomach drop to his knees, kind of like
when he left his brand-new baseball glove in the
rain all night.
“Where could it be? Where could it be?” he
wondered, his mind spinning so fast that he didn’t
even notice someone standing behind him. When he
turned around, he practically crashed right into
Sylvester.
“Looking for this?” Sylvester asked, and in his
hand was the marble, all green and twinkling in the
sunlight. Sylvester was winking at Joey again.
When Joey went to scoop the marble out of his
open hand, Sylvester raised his hand to that winking
eye and Joey heard a kind of popping sound. When
Sylvester dropped his hand again, it was empty and
instead of winking, Sylvester was now just staring
at Joey. Joey blinked at the bright-green eye looking
back at him.
Yep, that Sylvester definitely was a weird kid.
Terri L. Jones
When Terri was a kid, she would climb into a tree and read while her friends played kickball and rode bikes below.
She started writing her own poems stories in elementary school, and from that point on, never veered from “wanting
to be a writer when I grow up.” Decades later, Terri, who owns WordPlay, writes marketing for businesses and
nonprofits and is a weekly blog contributor to Seniors Guide Online. She’s also authored articles on everything from
the human body for National Geographic Explorer to creating a pet-friendly home for BOOMER.
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