Trampoline: A Short Story

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“1… 2… 3… JUMP!”

I obeyed the command, going up, sun and wind rushing my face, turning 140 degrees forward in the air, and falling flat on my face like a puck on ice.

My sister’s laughing wasn’t helping any.

Nothing was hurt but my ego, but I still wanted to just crawl into that corner of my bed with my blue blanket for the next twenty years.

Was it so much to ask to flip on a trampoline?

Joey could do it, Jacob could do it, heck, even Tommy could do it, and he was fat! Well, fatter than me at least.

But try as I might, I would never be the gymnastics Olympian of Huntoon Village.

So I picked up a kickball.

And try as they might, but Joey, Jacob, and Tommy could never kick a ball quite as far as I.

There are things I cannot do. Ask

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