sports - Stories

2006 Anthology

Tyson is your normal, everyday kid heading off to college. While the world doesn't know that he's gay, he's heading off to explore and find his true self.

Short Story submitted to Imagine Magazine's Football Contest. Andy loses a big soccer match but it leads to something else.

Kathryn was a nationally renowned ice skater. But until that fateful night where her world collapsed she wondered if she ever was going to recover again. Add into this a drama queen and a jealous competitor and there you have Crossing Blades.

These are short poems relating to my favourite sport: Basketball, which I couldn't continue because of some health issues!

There are two great loves in Grady's life -- baseball, and his best friend, Brennan. However, after a trip to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, will everything be the same?

Danny Bright has been waiting all year to compete, and the day is finally here. He'll have to earn the chance to participate, and once he does, he hardly even knows what he's getting himself into. Make no mistake, it's going to be a day he never, ever forgets. He'll need every bit of his skill, savvy, and a little bit of something special to win... The Contest.

"We look at each other for the longest two seconds, a knowing look, communicating something beyond the restraints of speech but to which we are both finely attuned; a common language...which, in its evolution, had turned our signals into pictures so vivid we were terrified of giving anything deeper than superficial away, and so we turn our heads, almost simultaneously, focusing our attention elsewhere."

When Stan's friend offers to be his personal trainer, the offer is too good to refuse. But the experience threatens to transform the pair in ways neither could have predicted.

The Boss runs a window cleaning business. Having decided to get himself an apprentice, due to ageing years, he took on 18 year old Elijah. He likes to be called Eli and loves football (or soccer as some people call it), and, for intimacy he prefers the same sex. what could go wrong on his first day.

This story contains British colloquialism which is explained. The game of football referred to in this story is also known as soccer.

Yuto Tanaka has been training harder than ever for the Ogawa High School swimming club's first meet of the year. While he is not as strong or fast as some of the older boys on the team, he has been making progress. Progress due in no small part to the mentorship of his senpai, Gen Uotate. With only a few days until the meet, Uotate-senpai pulls Yuto aside for one last bit of preparation, intended to strengthen both Yuto's standing on the team and their bond with each other.