Near Miss

Near Miss

Author: Haley Warren Listening Length: 10h 29m
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He’s not sure he’s ever been real. She’s not sure she’ll ever be whole again. Beckett Davis has been many things: reliable, likeable, on track to be the most accurate kicker in professional football history, and multiple-time winner of made-up awards, like pro-athlete with the most beautiful smile. He’s also spent...

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35. Greer

Greer

Sunlight slips further along the wrought-iron table between my sister and me, steam rising off matching cups of coffee, bags laden down with books strewn across the surface.

It’s become something of a ritual between us. Whenever the end of my longest call shift of the month happens, she moves her schedule around and we go to the bookstore together, find a coffee shop, and try to spend the afternoon in relative silence, reading, until Stella inevitably gets bored.

She’s been quieter for longer than usual today, and I don’t know if it’s because I still look exhausted—she made me ice roll my face for ten minutes before we left the house—or if she can feel the way each beat of my heart strains against its borders, the way these empty spaces in me bloom with Beckett and my brain can’t help but trample over the freshly tilled soil and beautiful sprouting things that happen to be the exact same shade as his eyes.