Semi-Fiction

Bleachers Are For Sitting

A story of sweat, steel, and adolescent resignation

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Next to me is a long line of young women in varying stages of physical distress. Some are hunched over trying to regain their breath, others are guzzling down water, and for the third time today someone is actively puking their guts out on the corner of the field. Tryouts are in full…