The Summer That Was
This story occurred well over ten years ago in a small Midwestern town where I grew up. It happened during the summer vacation between my graduating eight-grade and starting my freshman year in high school. It was also the summer I turned fourteen. My name is Bradley, but all my friends call me Brad and that year I was around 5'9" and couldn't have weighed more than 145 pounds. I was just your typical skinny eight-grader. As I recall it was just about two weeks into my summer vacation when...