Here are some of the best reader submissions this week:
Aimless
by Trine Pederson, Singapore
He walked along the football field, looking a bit tired, contemplative, forlorn. Spectators had long left. Another match finally over. Another loss. He had lost. How could this happen time and time again, he wondered? At the end of the field he realized. Without a goal, how could one score?
Special Ed.
by Betty Hallenback, USA
He wouldn’t pay attention and he failed all the tests. They labeled him, placed him, tried their best to fix him. He was ADHD/MH/EI. Like so many scrabble tiles, he tried to arrange this so it meant something: HIDE MAD. But it was too late for that now.
Untitled
by Kevin Bell, U.K.
It took him years to realise it had been love. He thought of love as physical, like a virus — but he’d never experienced it that way. Years later he couldn’t remember a day when he hadn’t thought of her. So maybe it had been love; maybe it still was.
* A mini-saga is a short story exactly 50 words long. (See Chapter 5 of A Whole New Mind.)