Fall from Grace by Joey Spinelli
It was early one afternoon and my boy said, “Can you play with me?” “No, I’m working, “, I said. “No you aren’t, you are looking at Facebook” my boy pointed out. , OK, I did feel a little guilty and decided to play with him for a few minutes. He said, “I want to be superman and you can be the bad guy”. I decided, “Ok, I’ll be Captain Butt Kicker.” “Whose that?”, He asked. “That’s the bad guy that kicks you in the butt if you get to close to him”, I said. Well that got him going and he went running through the house. He ran past the one side of the kitchen so I bolted to the other side hoping to cut him off as he was going by. As I ran to the other side of the kitchen, I put on the brakes, pivoted on one foot and turned suddenly and then “SNAP”, I felt something in my lower right leg pop out of wherever it was supposed to be, and it hit the back of my leg behind the skin. I immediately lifted up my leg because the sou