Guys Read: The Distance: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
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CJ just blew the half-mile relay for his track team, but the race on his mind is the one that's happening off the field in this short story from all-star author Jacqueline Woodson.
This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. She is also the author of New York Times bestselling novel Another Brooklyn (Harper/Amistad), which was a 2016 National Book Award Finalist and Woodson’s first adult novel in twenty years. In 2015, Woodson was named Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
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Guys Read - Jacqueline Woodson
THE DISTANCE
BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
Coach calls me over after the half-mile relay. Head between my legs, heart still on fire, trying hard to catch even a tiny breath. I’ll take that—a tiny breath. Just a little airflow back into my lungs. Just enough to stop the burning. Maybe a little bit more could make its way down to my legs, keep them from trembling.
Laurence jogs up to me with some of the other guys. You blew the third leg, Cash,
he says. Your race sucked a big one.
Even with my hard breathing and bent-overness, I just give him a look and he steps off. A little.
He’s gonna make you do it again. The 800’s your new race, man. Might as well get up and start breathing.
That’s the last time I’m running it. Ever,
I say. All of them look blurry and far away. I see the fourth leg, Jason, looking down on me like he can’t believe I’m human. Like he’s wondering why I’m even alive.
I could have caught them if you would’ve kicked a little,
Jason says. "You rigged