Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

but if the blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it on the outside of them.

Even he knew better than to know anything.

IN CASE YOU AIN’T KNOW, gunshots make everybody deaf and blind especially when they make somebody dead.

ANOTHER THING ABOUT THE RULES They weren’t meant to be broken. They were meant for the broken to follow.

UNCLE MARK PULLED ME IN for a hug, but how you hug what’s haunting you?

IS IT POSSIBLE for a hug to peel back skin of time, the toughened and raw bits, the irritated and irritating dry spots, the parts that bleed?