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Dispatch from Alternate Universe: Remembering Super Bowl XXXVI (St. Louis Rams 23, New England Patriots 17, OT)
For those Americans missing NFL football right about now (and with professional basketball, hockey and soccer mostly at a complete standstill, who could blame you?), BuckBokai supplies a “what if” piece on one of the greatest Super Bowls ever.
No. 36 featured perhaps the biggest upset recorded in the big game, though 12 years, one 16-0 season and “Spygate” later, the collective consciousness has forgotten that the now EEEvil New England Patriots were 17-point underdogs against Kurt Warner and the St. Louis Rams’ offensive machine.
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Short fiction: Crow’s Feet
“That was the best game we’ve ever had.”
“If you say so,” I gasp staccato between hard-fought breaths. I idly wonder if I’ll ever be able to pick myself up from the sun-baked asphalt feeling cool against my overheated body. Damn, I’m getting old.
And meanwhile Marcel shoots, swishes, grabs the ball, dribbles past an imaginary defender, shoots, misses, snags it before it bounces again, shoots and again the snap of the net cuts through the dry summer air.
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K.C. at the Line
BuckBokai’d been wanting to write this nigh-epic poem for years and during the 2010 NBA/Euroleague playoff season, finally got it up to do so. This didn’t play so well at BuckBokai big-sibling site BallinEurope.com back then, so perhaps this lonely piece of prosody will find a more welcome home here – sorry for the lack of science-fiction, but hey, it’s literary.
(And please be sure to check out “Casey at the Bat,” still a good read. If you prefer your poetry combined with an escape from a straitjacket, plus scroll to the bottom of this entry.)
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The Ball Game, chapter one
“Chapter one…” –Woody Allen, Manhattan
About a month ago, this writer answered a call for submissions for sports fiction from a book publisher which may or may not have been in Minneapolis.
The ad requested novella-length works about young people succeeding in sports for the 12- to 14-year-old market; despite the fact that the call was for stories about “baseball, football, basketball, soccer, etc.,” this old curmudgeon decided simply to feed his obsession for tlachtli and give ‘em something they weren’t expecting.
The following represents my submission and would be chapter one in such a book. “The Ball Game” is a story – based on a true story, honestly! – that BuckBokai’s been obsessed with for years and is willing to write in any format, really.
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