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The Crash on Stadium Drive
RICHARD MORIARTY
What Rhea doesn’t remember: fighting against tears, biting her tongue, and bleeding from the mouth onto
her seersucker shorts after her Schwinn’s front wheel skidded over a softball, sending her nose to the
pavement. What she does remember: the sound of an aluminum bat crashing against a ball, the ensuing
shouts from the crowd at the ballfield beside the street, and the swirls of memory from her own softball
days, making her taste infield dirt instead of blood––in her own playing days, she practiced every day of
the year, lugging her bucket of balls and her bat to the high school field down the street from her
childhood home, taking hundreds of swings off the batting tee, even in flurries and temperatures in the
teens. Before anyone noticed her curled up next to the bike, she heard the ringing of a collar: a dog was
running toward her, barking for help.
ISSUE 4 | SUMMER 2021
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