The Summer Things Fell Apart and Back Again

by KMPcool

This is a story comprised of scenes, each 100 words or less. The sandlot boys have a new team member who isn't who he says he is. When secrets are discovered things fall apart, and Benny just can't run fast enough. It falls back together as they grieve. Rated T for suicide.

25. fast forward

"Fast forward," he wrote. Scotty had his own box now. It was a suggestion Benny had made after, after the falling summer.

"I'm better now, I promise." He continued on the yellow stationary his mother had sent last month. "I can't stop thinking about you, and everything you've done."

Scotty put the pen down. He had graduated from the crayon two months ago. He pressed just enough folds into the paper to slide it into the matching envelope and tossed it into the box of unsent letters. Maybe someday, Benny would find letters he liked, that made him cry.