My brother was constantly being taken advantage of by other kids. Not for money or his lunch or test answers, but rather for attention and, I guess, friendship? Affection? I can't fathom exactly why any of them did it, but no kid did it in conjunction with another, so it must have been some innate need to have a friend who you never considered a friend. My brother was that kid little jerks like to make their temporary friend and do questionable things together, like build a pipe bomb.
Inspired by "Light and the Sufferer" by Jonathan Lethern: "My brother showed me the gun."
This was another of my favorites from The Slipstream Anthology. Really interesting idea that, I think, epitomizes what "slipstream" is as a (possible) genre. (I said "possible" because it seems as though the genre status is still being debated. At least, it was still debated in 2006 when this anthology was published!)
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