Write On Edge Prompt: The Problem with Hail
What most people think of when you say, "hail." "Umm, we're gonna tell." I stared with appall at my fellow 4th grade classmates, who were standing around me by the 12 foot floor-to-ceiling window just as a hail storm began peppering cars below us with ice pellets. I had only just made a simple weather observation. "Look, hail," I'd said. " That's a cuss word," I was promptly informed. "We're gonna tell," someone else promised. I puffed up defensively. The idea of being "told on" for saying something entirely correct intimidated me, but I would not go down without a fight. "No, it's not ," I insisted, then pointed out the window. "That's what you call rain when it turns into ice balls--HAIL." My classmates eyes bugged and hands flew over...