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First Line Fiction Update #6
A road trip and garden chore list make a week fly by — excuses for a day late, Editor’s Choice Feature reveal
Dear FLF writers, I ask for your forgiveness for being a day late with this week’s Editor’s Choice Feature update. While I had the week off and planned my to-do list and planting schedule with plenty left to write, it didn’t work out that way.
My daughter was asked and cajoled out of her hockey career retirement to join a select team for a West Coast Tournament. This is the same showcase tournament as last year, where the team swept the tournament to a Gold Medal without a single loss, and whereafter a prestigious Boston Hockey program recruited my kid, offering her an open door to university and college hockey draft boards, along with a seat on the Canadian/US National Under-18 Team.
An offer which she declined. Then, she proceeded to hang up her skates, choosing instead to focus on academics; “It’s high school now, Dad. Grade 10. I have to get serious.”
So, seeing her eager to lace up and join the girls once again was doubly surprising. The team fared well, finishing with the Bronze and my kiddo, despite being off the ice for a year, produced six points in four games, including the only goal in a very tight game, preserving a 1–0…
