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Creative Writing: Black Boy's Playground

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Trey pulled aside the white curtain, let a ray of sunlight dropping in his bedroom, a spatial room with gray walls, ornamented with his misty and cloudy sky floor to ceiling painting.
He then rummaged his bag and pulled out his canvas and pencil. He spread out the canvas on the floor, holding down the corners with paperweights. Now, what do I want to fill my canvas with? Thought Trey as his pencil scratched the first line.
At first, he could see only flashing of shadow in his memory, it’s strange that he actually only remembered vaguely about the figure that the more he talk and think about it, the more it become his obsession. But after he inhaled a deep breath and creating an empty room in his mind, soon the detail, shape, edge, the emotion, …show more content…

She then turned at Trey and said softly but in a firm tone, “It’s a clown.”
“What?!” aghast, Trey grabbed the canvas from her. He examined the sketch on the canvas every angle. Adia might be right, why he had never thought about it before.
Still all smiled, she added, “I couldn’t quite grasp what I see, Trey. The figure is nothing like a traditional clown I’m used to seeing; a white base, with exaggerated red lips and cheeks. Even if I had to describe him, I would label him as pleasing in appearance. The contour he applied on its face heightened the sense of him being smart, florid, and …show more content…

Trey rummaged his already rumpled hair, “Why would someone punctuate his face with a color and manifest himself as a mysterious mischief figure? Is it all only a ludicrous antic of someone who’s lonely?”
Adie giggled, “Since you’ve been living in segregation for these past few months, here’s a news flash for you. It’s not the first time a clown making an appearance in New Morram City recently.” Adia handed him her phone, which displayed an open internet browser with the news about the clowns’ sighting in New Morram city. “There been sighting of them in the cemetery, in Glace Bay port, even at the financial district. Everyone who saw them said they didn’t do anything. They just stood there and smiling, they even gave flowers to the passerby.”
“Great,” Trey took his phone, dialed Cedric’s number up, and had to wait several long seconds before Cedric picking up the phone, “Cedric, he’s a clown.” “I know there have been sighting of clowns in many places lately. But in front your window? Are kidding me?” Cedric’s voice can be heard loudly from the receiver. “Can you believe that? How exciting it turns out, we’re dealing with a clown ha-ha!” Trey laughed. Suddenly he had this strange feeling that something’s going to happen, he just wasn’t sure whether it’s something good or

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