Softball, by the Numbers
byOVER 1.2 MILLION GIRLS PLAY SOFTBALL, and in the 2022-2023 season, 357,110 girls played high school softball. 1,300 girls play baseball in 28 states. This is Internet research. 1972, the…
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No Grand Passion
byAFTER I WAS ABLE TO SCREW MY HEAD BACK ON TIGHT, they told me I’d swam ashore. Finally, I’d swam ashore after many years living on K Street with the…
Sorry Ladies, Studies Show No Amount of Air is Safe During Pregnancy
byWE—THE CDC, THE EXPERTS, THE EXPECTING MOM BLOGS, the websites represented in your top internet search results—are sorry to collectively report that the only safe amount of air for a…
All Fading Now
byI HAVE NEVER SEEN HER LIKE THIS. She’s twenty-something, young enough to be my kid, and normally dignified, professional—always wears long dark pants and flowing tops, thick sweaters, bracelets I…
Becoming a Footnote
byTHE MEMORIAL COLISEUM IS A MILE AND A HALF FROM NORTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL, past the DQ where we hung out after tennis practice, and is the home of every…
Champion
byTHE ONE-LEVEL THOMASTON HOUSE ON THE HILL IS SLOWLY COMING ALIVE. Every time the front door creaks open and swings shut behind a new visitor, Annette shoos away the dogs…
Satya
by“WELL, WHICH IS IT? WERE YOU IN OR OUT OF THE KITCHEN?” Uncle Paul is hitching across the pickleball court with his questions. On our side of the net, my…
Disintegration
byWHEN GRANDMA DIED, THE FAMILY FINALLY CLEARED OUT THE HOUSE ON OSAGE. All the streets in that part of town were named for Indian tribes. She’d kept everything after Grandpa…
Among the Breakers
byIT’S FRIDAY NIGHT IN AUGUST AND ONE-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING A LIVE STREAM of two men in Rochester, New York open a thirty-thousand-dollar box of National Football League…
Together, in the Golden Hour
byBIGGEST ONE LEAPS OFF THE GROUND, shakes the house, bellows with forced levity. “You’ll never guess where it’s made!” Hair Scrunchie’s gaze goes soft. “So, the obvious places are out.”…