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From Joe's writing

Emmet Sapp wasn’t having a good day. First it was those stupid girls at lunch making fun of him, and now he couldn’t find his homework for his AP English class. He searched through his backpack, hoping he’d simply misplaced it, but it just wasn’t there.

— Connections, from Eventual Beginnings: Stories Short and Longer