Brett Mayfield

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“1 ½ ” by Brett Mayfield

Submitted to Contest #48

The water was biting, hard: iced marbles on my back. From the headless pipe of that locker room shower came the panging reminder that our Bulldogs football team was just another sort of standard suckers. Couldn’t win a game against a local middle school. Something about the idea of victory out-of-reach just made the water feel more glacial—probably best to hit the iceberg and abandon ship.  The bangs of C...

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I am a rising junior undergraduate student at Northwestern University. Currently, I am studying Communication Studies and Cultural Anthropology. I usually write poetry but am getting into prose for a new hobby.