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RON FROMSTEIN: Adventures in Water Sliding

They said no one gets stuck anymore and then I got stuck.

So I wailed and hollered and banged with my palms flat on the slick white plastic.

No one.

Nothing.

And then came the sound.

That terrible, horrible cry.

Someone was coming behind me, fast.

And then a shadow.

Ron Fromstein is a largely self-taught writer from Toronto who has also lived in Chicago, New Orleans Vacouver and Iceland.

The woman in blue flicks the end of the needle, and says “You’re probably not going to even feel it.”

I shut my eyes and breathe.

I squeeze my fist.

I feel it.

“Oops,” she says.

I don’t open my eyes.

It’s not real if you don’t open your eyes.

Ron Fromstein is a largely self-taught writer from Toronto who has also lived in Chicago, New Orleans, Vancouver, and Iceland.