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WARNING: Interim is a Mature YA/New Adult crossover standalone that contains graphic language and violence, including gun violence. If school shootings are an especially sensitive subject for you, then I urge you to refrain from reading this book.
"GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS"
copyright S. Walden, 2015
"GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS"
He sank to the
ground, wiping the perspiration of hard work from his forehead, listening to
Peter Gabriel’s fading words about war. He adopted the song as his anthem when
he first heard it played on his father’s stereo a few years ago. It was a weird
night of nostalgia, and Mr. Stahl sat in the center of the living room
surrounded by the music of his happier past. Gabriel was among the artists, and
Jeremy hung back in the doorway to the living room working hard to decode the
lyrics.
Maybe he got it
wrong, but he heard a story of warring children. Mean children. Children out to
harm with words, with deeds. Children out for blood in the war-ravaged hallways
of Any School, USA. He fought a war there every day. He fought a war at home,
too. And instantly, his idea of justice was born.
He stole the CD and put the song on repeat every night before bed so
that he would never forget his mission. Those kids needed to play nicer, he
thought, growing more confident in his plan, his purpose. Metal could stay a
flying fist. Metal could silence an ugly word. Flesh was weak; metal strong.
And he would be the boy who wielded the metal—eradicating the abuse for good.
copyright S. Walden, 2015
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