NEXT UP! 3 40 together on any subject. But when they forge these excuse notes they’re brilliant. Why? I have a drawer full of excuse notes that could be turned into an anthology of Great American Excuses or Great American Lies. The drawer was filled with samples of American talent never mentioned in song, story or scholarly study. How could I have ignored this treasure trove, these gems of fiction, fantasy, creativity, crawthumping, self-pity, family problems, boilers exploding, ceilings collapsing, fires sweeping whole blocks, babies and pets pissing on homework, unexpected births, heart attacks, strokes, miscarriages, robberies? Here was American high school writing at its best – raw, real, urgent, lucid, brief, lying: The stove caught fire and the wallpaper went up and the fire department kept us out of the house all night. The toilet was blocked and we had to go down the street to the Kilkenny Bar where my cousin works to use their toilet but that was blocked too from the night before and you can imagine how hard it was for my Ronnie to get ready for school. I hope you’ll excuse him this one time and it won’t happen again. The man at the Kilkenny Bar was very nice on account of how he knows your brother, Mr. McCord. an anthology – safn valinna texta a treasure trove – fjársjóður gems of fiction – bókmenntaperlur crawthumping – sjálfshól self-pity – sjálfsvorkunn a boiler – hitatankur a stroke – heilablóðfall a miscarriage – fósturlát urgent – hér: aðkallandi lucid – hér: skýr, ljós on account of – vegna
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