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    Walking on Glass
    Walking on Glass
    Walking on Glass
    Ebook143 pages28 minutes

    Walking on Glass

    By Alma Fullerton

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    Your mother's suicide attempt has left her in a coma from which she's never waking up. You know that she wouldn't want to live like this, but could you really help her die? Here you are, making the hardest decision of your life and there's no one to help you: Your father has disappeared into depression. Your best friend is becoming someone you no longer want to know. There is a girl who could help, maybe, if you'd let her. But in the end, it's all up to you.

    A free-verse novel from debut author Alma Fullerton plunges deep inside the psyche of a young man faced with a life-and-death decision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperTeen
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061972614
    Walking on Glass
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    Alma Fullerton

    Alma Fullerton was born in Ottawa and grew up in a large military family. She's lived all over Canada and in Europe and now resides in Ontario with her husband and two daughters.

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      I'm always amazed at how much can be said in so few words when I read one of these novels in verse. I had to re-read the ending to be sure I understood what the author was saying. I think the kids will like this depressing, sad, disturbing book.

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    Walking on Glass - Alma Fullerton

    JUST TO LET YOU KNOW

    I begin this

    under protest.

    The further you read,

    the more you invade my mind.

    Take something from me

    I don’t want to give.

    My thoughts.

    You will enter a place

    I don’t want to be.

    My conscience.

    JOURNALS

    Writing a journal

    for some shrink

    won’t make me

    feel better.

    It won’t change

    what happened.

    It’ll just make me think,

    and I don’t want to think.

    Mom thought too much.

    Look where it got her.

    THIS IS STUPID

    Shit happens.

    We have to

    deal with it.

    We can’t

    change it.

    Why pick it apart

    like a detective

    dissects a suicide note.

    BESIDES

    Only girls

    and wusses

    write journals.

    If Jack finds out

    I’m writing one,

    he’ll hassle me so much

    I’ll have to beat the crap out of him

    just to prove

    I’m no wuss.

    JACK

    I know Mom hates him.

    He hangs around

    with the King’s Crypt

    and shows up

    at our house

    wasted.

    But I don’t care.

    Jack has always been

    my best friend.

    He knows how

    to have a good time.

    ME AND JACK

    Jack pulls up in a kick-ass

    Mustang convertible.

    He whoops as he gets out

    and grins. Not bad, hey?

    Damn right, I say,

    wishing I had the cash

    to buy a car

    like that.

    Come on, he says.

    I jump in and we head downtown.

    We pass some girls we’ve seen

    at some parties,

    so he turns around

    and pulls up beside them.

    Want a ride? he asks.

    They jump in.

    We speed through the streets,

    blasting the music

    and flipping off people who glare.

    And for a while

    I forget all about

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