Word: biking
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...taught me how to play box ball. Every afternoon, after finishing homework (that I had mostly done on the bus anyway), watching “Dirty Dancing” or “Dave” for the 100th time, we would venture out into the neighborhood on our bikes. Naturally athletic (and a future volleyball and track superstar), Jenny rode around hands-free on her cool bike—Titanic-style—while I, on the other hand, still had a bright pink children’s bike. Complete with training wheels...
Then the serpent came. Vinny pulled into Jenny’s driveway on his cool, training wheels-less bike one day. Thinking he needed help on that day’s homework, a name-acronym poem, I was already thinking of words that begin with the letter V when he walked over towards me...and my bike—my pink, four-wheel bike...
...that Jenny’s sister’s bike?” he asked...
...betrayal, I endured a good 10 minutes of laughter and ridicule before I realized I had constructed his entire name poem in my mind. Having completed that task jolted me awake, and I realized it was probably foolish to just stand there taking it. I got on my bike and rolled away, hoping that my four wheels would carry me faster than they usually...
...punchy, incisive style.The prose alternates colloquial language with glamorized descriptions of the urban, partially adopting the interior monologue of each character. This strange fluctuation between the omniscient, descriptive voice and the informal internal voice can occur even in the same sentence. When the muscular punk Ponyboy rides his bike through the desert, Bock welds the character’s vocabulary together with an acute sense of the details of Las Vegas’ man-made oasis of asphalt and neon: “Ponyboy’s style was hauling ass, blazing through the smoldering afternoons, pedaling like hell over...