What I’m Afraid Of

By Gabriel King

1. fifth grade

2. Duke Evans

3. Frankie Carmen

4. spiders

5. aligators

6. Terrance

7. loosing Momma or Pop

8. Fritas basement

9. earwig pinchers

10. loose cows

11. getting lost in the swamp

12. swinging off the rope swing

13. mising the school bus

14. big trucks and mean truck drivers

15. falling into the toilet

16. robbers

17. teachers who yell a lot

18. sentipedes

19. the old dirt road

20. getting eaten by buzards

21. the Evans trailer

22. ghosts

23. Frita being mad at me

24. clumps of sixth graders

25. getting my hand chopped off in momma’s new blender

26. being pounded

27. roller skating on the hiway like on that TV show

28. calling a teacher momma by axident

29. never getting any taller

30. finding a worm in my sanwich

31. being locked in the bathroom at school

32. not being picked for gym teams

33. killer robots

34. falling off a high branch of a pecan tree

35. corpses

36. tornados

37. wars like Vietnam

38. raccoons, especially when they sound like bears outside your tent