False Start

I didn’t sleep much that night. Every time I started to drift off, I’d hear Joshua humming in my head, that same tuneless noise from the car ride home, and my eyes would snap… [See More on Patreon]

The rest of the week went a lot better than how it started. We beat Lamar on Friday, our sixth win in a row, and while they were a much better team than some of the others we’d faced, we managed to keep a lead through most of the game and stayed a touchdown ahead […]

School might not be going well, but at least football was back on track. Yesica had been right. If I just let my body work and pushed everything else out, the game made sense… [See More on Patreon]

The walk to Li’s mom’s took forever, mostly because I was in my own head. As bad as Thursday night and then Friday’s game had been, yesterday was even worse. Dad had called out again and spent a lot of it drinking, which wasn’t… [See More on Patreon]

A few days passed, and I didn’t hear anything more about the military academy. Either Mom took the news well, which I seriously doubted, or Dad was waiting for her to have one of her good days to bring it up. Given how things had been going around the house lately, I figured it was […]

The ball sailed three feet over Andre’s head. It wobbled through the air, a dying duck, before clanging off the chain-link fence behind… [See More on Patreon]