Steve Delgado

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ā€œI'll Take the Daysā€ by Steve Delgado

Submitted to Contest #198

Mottled groups of the wayward kids who walked to school each day instead of riding in air-conditioned vehicles sauntered to the outside reception area from different directions ā€“ some from the alleys, some from the side streets. All were gathering in the school bus loading area for the first day of school. For the older sixth graders, it was their last year of elementary school here, and they were looking forward to being wonderfully comfortable operating as the familiar rowdy group. I know this about those kids because Iā€™m one of them.&n...

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Marketing/communications professional and author of The Dive Plane (2020) and The Topaz Beetle (2022). Find out more about these underwater adventures at TheDivePlane.com