My Cardboard Balcony

Brainquake by Belinda Roddie Definition: when a man loves another man who loves another man who loves a woman in a speedo sipping kool-aid from a water fountain, and the aches and shaking sensation of your sense-making process shifts into a thunderous denouement of relationship analysis of relationship analysis of relationship analysis, the kind you drink beer to in a hotel room at two o'five in the morning, and the Fairmont is two blocks away and Richter just had a heart attack by the Golden Gate Bridge, and plates move with meals still on them and forks tipped with trembling succulence, when the man who loves another man sleeps with the woman and licks kool-aid powder off her curves and dreams about a climax in a stone mall unscathed by current events.

They won all three games in one clean sweep. To celebrate, all of the players went to the local bar to get drunk on bad tequila and even cheaper vodka. When that was over with, the fullback vomited into the nearest potted plant outside the pub, and the goalie stumbled into the middle of the street and got hit by an oncoming van. Don't worry, he didn't die. He did, however, lose all feeling in his legs for two weeks. Which was kind of fortunate because of how painful compound fractures could be.