Eight Foot Blue

A Novel

Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 4

Daddy Bad Legs.
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue

I'd known her for an hour, before Lily asked me to catch a shark.
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 2

Lily looked at me as if to say, hey you’re just a boy, and I’m a girl, and you’re shorter than me, so how could I possibly be interested in you?
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 3

“It’s simple,” she said. “You’ll have to catch the shark yourself.”
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 5

I wanted to say do you think that she could love me, and how exactly can you catch a shark?
Story of the week

Eight Foot Blue - 6

What I hated most about life, and the holiday, was walking anywhere with Dad.
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 7

I wasn’t wearing my orange T-shirt with the picture of the Tiger on, and when I tool a big breath in, and held it there, then you could see my bones, my ribs, the shape of me.
Cherry

Eight Foot Blue - 8

Then after a second or a minute, I wasn’t really sure, he put the phone down and turned to me and said, “put your shoes on, get your shirt, George, quickly. We’ve got to go to the hospital.”