Saturday, July 10, 2010

Jumping

I used to play basketball.
Every morning me and my team would practice jumping.
The floor of our gym was very hard so when we practiced jumping we hurt our knees.
Some of our players sustained very serious injuries.
We knew we needed a new gym but we couldn’t afford one.
Our team was very poor.
Our rival team was very rich.
We made fun of them for being so rich but still always losing to us who were very poor.
One day they offered to buy us a new gym.
We were suspicious.
We thought they must be up to something.
But they said it was in the interest of good sportsmanship and that their money wasn’t doing them any good so it may as well do us some good hahaha and it was a very good speech so we let them buy us a new gym with a state of the art air conditioning system.
My team went into our new gym.
We could feel the cool air in our hair.
We could feel the springy floor under our feet.
We said three two one and then all jumped higher than we ever had before.
The ceiling fans sliced our heads off.
I don’t play basketball anymore.

1 comment:

  1. Love the ending on this. I especially like that you specify that he doesn't play basketball anymore. Dead narrators are awesome. :-)

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