Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Mary Liza Hartong

Soccer on the Edge of Town

It’s painful, this loss, this growing up

I still remember the soccer fields at the edge of Nashville, off Highway 70. Way out in Bellevue by the Toys ’R Us and the Sonic and the psychic with the big white sign. We had to be there early for our games. Squinting hour, foggy hour. Can’t-finish-your-cereal hour.

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