cbcdiversity:

Contributed by Ned Rust, Author

They want me to
try to write for what?

They want a graduate of the
99%, non-minority, public schools of last-century Briarcliff Manor (the B.M. we
call it, much like residents of the O.C., only without a validating TV show) to
write for a diversity blog?

Roaring Brook has just
published a book I’ve written called Patrick
Griffin’s Last Breakfast on Earth,about a kid who undertakes a kitchen-sink
chemistry experiment and ends up in a parallel world dominated by a
hyper-modern efficiency state that finds human cultural heritages to be inconvenient
and even anathema.

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Thought piece here thanks to the excellent CBC diversity blog. Special bonus content: my 3rd grade class photo with my fly open & shoes untied.