Mon, 30 July 2007  Shadow archetypes emerge and a blood bonding ritual binds the four boys to each other in a moon-bathed vow beyond the blackness of the team socks. Coach Joey and his same-aged wrestling brother Mike shut the kids out of the wrestling room while they brawl in private. Paco drinks from Chad's finger and opens his eyes to the dawn as the black cat creeps out of the dorm. He chases the ungainable shadow through the woods until he finds the dark soul is resting inside its rightful owner, lying on the dock, staring down into the murky water. Paco wants to swim in that unknown murkiness where his coach is also his friend. Who can catch a friend whose secrets slip away so swiftly?Comments[2] |
This chapter had a dreamy quality... I was transported to the camp with the guys.
posted by: David on Mon, 8/13 04:07 PM EDT
That wrestling mini-camp weekend was a dream come true. The two other coaches I spent so much of my life with were like brothers, and I had been a camp counselor during the summer, so it was 3 days of combining two of my favorite worlds and sharing the wondrous woods with the wrestlers who were like sons and little brothers, and even some of the summer camp non-wrestlers gave wrestling a try and did great. There is a hamster buried there, too: Shad, named after one of my favorite camp counselors from when I was a kid. Thanks for coming to camp with us!
posted by: Adam Apellasios on Tue, 8/14 04:08 PM EDT
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