He emerges from under his bed clutching a sheaf of Pokemon stickers. Jess also has Pokemon magazines, hundreds of Pokemon cards, electronic versions of trading card-games, jungle booster packs. The array is more complex than the human genome. Crazy Bones are what's really cool now. Kids play with them the way grandparents used to play with marbles.
Aliens are good, they're so technical.
I flicked my best friend Troy Silverman's Java. It flew off a jump, hit a side wall and knocked down his mutant fly. We aren't allowed to play for keeps. It makes time fly. Jess strokes the stuffed orca that holds place of honor on his pillow.