#498 Foley’s Pond- Peter Orner
The boys of the neighborhood have a secret spot they call
Foley’s Pond. Cesspool is really a better name for it, leeching runoff from the
local golf course.
“Once, Ross Berger dove into Foley’s and came out with green
hair and leeches on his thighs…We all jumped in. It was like swimming in crude
oil. A fantastic place, Foley’s—scragged, infested, over grown, and gloomed
long before Nate Zamost’s sister wrecked it.”
Barbara was the two and a half year old girl—Nate’s sister—that
crawled under the fence and drown in the cesspool. Nate might have told her how
to get there. Now, one girl dead, they turned the cesspool into a clean public
park. The boys miss their secret spot. Nice story, huh?
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