Walking on Glass
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Your mother's suicide attempt has left her in a coma from which she's never waking up. You know that she wouldn't want to live like this, but could you really help her die? Here you are, making the hardest decision of your life and there's no one to help you: Your father has disappeared into depression. Your best friend is becoming someone you no longer want to know. There is a girl who could help, maybe, if you'd let her. But in the end, it's all up to you.
A free-verse novel from debut author Alma Fullerton plunges deep inside the psyche of a young man faced with a life-and-death decision.
Alma Fullerton
Alma Fullerton was born in Ottawa and grew up in a large military family. She's lived all over Canada and in Europe and now resides in Ontario with her husband and two daughters.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm always amazed at how much can be said in so few words when I read one of these novels in verse. I had to re-read the ending to be sure I understood what the author was saying. I think the kids will like this depressing, sad, disturbing book.
Book preview
Walking on Glass - Alma Fullerton
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
I begin this
under protest.
The further you read,
the more you invade my mind.
Take something from me
I don’t want to give.
My thoughts.
You will enter a place
I don’t want to be.
My conscience.
JOURNALS
Writing a journal
for some shrink
won’t make me
feel better.
It won’t change
what happened.
It’ll just make me think,
and I don’t want to think.
Mom thought too much.
Look where it got her.
THIS IS STUPID
Shit happens.
We have to
deal with it.
We can’t
change it.
Why pick it apart
like a detective
dissects a suicide note.
BESIDES
Only girls
and wusses
write journals.
If Jack finds out
I’m writing one,
he’ll hassle me so much
I’ll have to beat the crap out of him
just to prove
I’m no wuss.
JACK
I know Mom hates him.
He hangs around
with the King’s Crypt
and shows up
at our house
wasted.
But I don’t care.
Jack has always been
my best friend.
He knows how
to have a good time.
ME AND JACK
Jack pulls up in a kick-ass
Mustang convertible.
He whoops as he gets out
and grins. Not bad, hey?
Damn right,
I say,
wishing I had the cash
to buy a car
like that.
Come on,
he says.
I jump in and we head downtown.
We pass some girls we’ve seen
at some parties,
so he turns around
and pulls up beside them.
Want a ride?
he asks.
They jump in.
We speed through the streets,
blasting the music
and flipping off people who glare.
And for a while
I forget all about