The Weightlifters
The Northfield High weightlifting team needed bodies. Of the original ten-man team, six had been cut, busted with fake IDs up at the Pleasureland strip club off the highway. One guy dropped out after knocking up a sophomore, and another guy quit after getting pinned to the drop floor accordion-style under a ninety-kilo snatch without a spotter around to pull it off his neck. Connor decided to try out for the team, because it’d keep him out of the house when his stepfather got home. He was running out of basement sheetrock—five fresh holes punched last Thursday...
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