Jody gripped the basketball and eyed the basket. As always, the target seemed impossibly high and far away from where she stood, stiff-legged and sweating, at the foul line. The seventh-grader lined up the shot, willed the ball to go in, and pushed off. The ball missed the hoop entirely, arcing toward
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March, 2010
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Well, the fat lady has sung. I’m dead. Deader than a doornail. I’m not yet pushing up daisies, but that’s only because no one has gotten around to burying me.
I certainly didn’t see this coming when I got out of bed last Saturday. But I guess that’s just how it
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Short story about a woman’s emergence as she discovers who she really is and decides to be that person–at last.
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