We just finished reading "The Streak," a short story from W.D. Myers "145th Street." "The Streak." was very interesting. It was about a boy named Jamie Farrell, who just lost a school basketball game to Powell Academy. After blowing the winning shot, everybody in school is giving him grief. That's when he tells his best buddy Froggy, that he dropped a Wonderade bottle and the glass splattered all over the locker room floor. That's when Froggy tells Jamie that he is on a streak. Froggy says that when a streak occurs, a number of bad things can happen, or a number good things can happen to you. Then he drops his slide in biology, and at lunch he spills milk on Maurice Duprees lap. When he stopped by the burger joint he started eating food, but then realized he left his wallet in locker. He runs home, and then sprains his ankle to get the phone, and when answers the phone he finds out that he failed his english test and is on the verge of failing. Then that's when Jamie gets good luck. he had seven good things coming his way, and he had already used them before he could ask Celia to the dance. Luckily, Celia was also having a streak so she asked him out. In the end they both got what they bargained for.
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