Track and Field: Part I
It all started on the track. That concrete loop is honestly one of my least favorite places to be. Why? Well, for one thing, track-and-field practices at the exact same time as the football team. That's peculiar in itself, but there's also the fact...
Track and Field: Part 3
After hanging up the phone I hopped off of my bed and padded softy across the carpet to my bathroom. Excitement had banished any thoughts of sleep from my mind, but I was starting to feel that thick, hazy state of weariness creep in behind my eyes. I...
Strangers After All: Part I
The trip to Myrtle beach had been an of-the-moment decision. Deacon and I just wanted to get away from our dorms and go somewhere since most of our fellow students had gone home for break. The sand tickled the bottoms of my bare feet as we walked...
Track and Field: Part 2
After practice Trevor and I walked home together as usual, and although I wanted to babble on like an excitable school-girl about what had happened with Red, I didn't bother my macho friend with an obvious overdose of gayness. Trevor was a great buddy,...
Track and Field: Part 6 - Lee
Lee I felt sick to my stomach. The whole drive in Sasha's car was giving me time to think, but, as much as there was for me to mull on, all I managed to do was draw a blank. My mind was scoured of any thought whatsoever; completely, eerily,...
Track and Field: Part 10 - Red
Red I rapped my knuckles against the glass screen door to Lee's parent's house. I tried to make it as rhythmic as I could; it turned into a long, bony trundle that vibrated the glass. It was how Mrs. Hawthorne knew that it was me. For the first month...
Track and Field: Part 4
I hate to say it, but I was about as equally captivated by the interior of that car as I was by the driver. My brain was going haywire over deciding where my attentions should lie: the pretty flashing lights, high-tech gadgets, and rumbling engine that...
Track and Field: Part 7
"Sasha, please stop crying," my sister whined. Her eyes were beginning to tear up, too. "You know what'll happen, and I'd rather cut the sobbing out altogether than start myself." My reply was a wet sniff and a whimper. I couldn't help it; honestly I...
Track and Field: Part 8 - Red
Red "Sweetheart, what's the matter?" my mother chirped before daintily nibbling on the piece of steak that dribbled juices down the end of her fork, her ears fluttering at the taste. "You haven't touched your T-bone." "Very peculiar." My father said...
Track and Field: Part 5 - Conall
Conall "Thirty-two to twelve," I scoffed proudly, looking left and right for any oncoming traffic before pulling out onto the highway. "It was a massacre! The Knights were spectacular! You were spectacular!" My eyes and ears swiveled to Lee in the...
Track and Field: Part 9
I woke up and Lee was gone. I also couldn't move. My body was so stiff that to wiggle a toe seemed impossible. Were my toes even still attached? Since I couldn't crane my neck to look around it was as though I was nothing but a dismembered head...
Strangers After All: Part V
I felt giddy as I sat next to Lani and watched television. Not restlessly giddy, but just the right amount of fervent excitement that builds in your system. Much like when riding a roller-coaster and you're scaling that enormous hill that - you know...