The Field Remembers

The Field Remembers

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Marshall: Even now, I still haven't told her how I feel. The problem is she's in love with someone else. I know because I watched it happen. I let it happen. Now she's become the ghost of a person I can no longer lay claim to. So I found myself searching for a surrogate. And that's how I became friends with her younger sister. That's when everything spiraled into chaos. Emma: You think you've got problems? Try going to a brand new school and before the year's even started, your older sister shaves her head and makes the football team. The other cheerleaders roast me daily. Oh, and she's really good and scores touchdowns...blah, blah, blah. The worst part? She's got two guys in love with her. Two! I have exactly zero. That makes our score 2-0. I'm not winning.…

Between the Wish and the Thing

Between the Wish and the Thing

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I hate secrets. And I hate drama. But somehow, I stumbled into relationships with two girls, each one hiding something big from me. Bree is beautiful and fit. Captain of the cheerleaders and homecoming queen. She's every guy's dream, every guy but me that is. I didn't really intend to date her, but things just have a way of taking on a life of their own. Then there's Peyton, who drives me crazy. She's a teammate, for God's sake. A football player with a shaved head who disguised herself as a dude to make varsity. She's tough and independent, a smartass with a big chip on her shoulder. But she's more than that--her beauty is wild and untamed. She glows electric, and I'm drawn to that electricity like lightning to a rod.So, I find myself in a bit of a bind--a love triangle with a cheerleader and a football player--and I have a feeling that their secrets just might alter the course of my life forever.…

RUNNING BACK

RUNNING BACK

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I have a lot of secrets. Trying out for my new school's football team disguised as a boy is only the beginning. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm developing a disturbing crush on a teammate. But that's not my worst secret. Nobody here knows I have a twin brother named Pax. Or that he died last year. And that I might be delusional because I see him and hear him, everywhere. Or maybe it's the guilt that haunts me. Because I know deep down that my father is the one who killed him. And keeping that secret somehow makes me complicit. But my biggest secret of all is that I'm afraid that I'll never be able to forgive my dad for Pax's death. Until I can put that ghost to rest, my brother's spirit will be forever lost in the liminal space between this world and the next. And I am lost in this world without him.…