November 22, 2022 - “Hockey Season” by Elizabeth Lerman

The stadium shook when the boys scored and parents pulled themselves out of their seats to cheer wildly before plunging back down in a way that made the metal skeleton tremble. Afterwards, while the brothers removed their padded armor, the sisters would scurry to the snack bar, suck hard on blue lollipops and stick their tongues out at each other saying how’s this? Bluer, they would say and when their lips looked as though they had been dipped in dye, they would run into the gaggle of families, giggling, tugging at their mothers’ sleeves saying look at me, look at me, they shook and made their teeth chatter and told the brothers they had gotten frostbite from sitting through another game.