Tag: soccer

  • Short End of the Stick

    I always knew I had the short end of the stick being that I had two older brothers.  I wanted to be with them for every hour of every day.  I wanted to do everything they did and sometimes they let me and sometimes they didn’t.  My parents obliged my fantasies of playing flag football,…

  • The Gambler

    As the ball soared toward the net, I hoped it would not go in.  If we lost this game, life as I knew it would be over.  I had confidently bet on the Lions to win the tournament, but it looked like my brother’s team was about to go ahead by two goals.  And with…

  • The Party

    “He claimed he wasn’t there.”  My mother crossed her arms and glared.  “Mom, he is lying to you.  I saw him with my own eyes. I know he was there.  He-” before I could finish my defense, the doorbell rang.  Suddenly, out of nowhere, I knew it was the police.  They had been at the…

  • The Sleepover

    “Man oh man.  Oh man.  What are we going to do?  Man.  Oh man.”  I listened to Amari panic as I slowly tried to drive away from the scene of our ‘crime.’  Toilet papering on the night of our annual soccer sleepover had gone awry when someone had called the police.  “We’re driving away, as…

  • The Soccer Coach

    “I think he just wants to be seen,” I told the coach.  “His father just left and I know he feels like he is being left behind.”  I practiced my speech as I headed toward my son’s soccer practice.  I actually wondered if he would let Tyler back on the team or not, Tyler had been late…