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Forever Oak Park High

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DATE POSTED:October 17, 2024
Forever-Oak-Park-High-Ada-Zhang-American-Short-Fiction-Story-featThis story is published in collaboration with the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. Part IFreshmenThey were the only vegetarians, a fact that was highlighted every game day when the other girls loaded up on chicken sandwiches or steak fajitas while Yoon and Carmen ate salads of iceberg lettuce and shredded cheese, forgoing the ranch that came in rectangular packets, which they agreed was disgusting. They ate ironically, offering a round of applause whenever one found an actual cherry tomato. “Sustenance!” they cheered, stabbing the tomato ceremoniously before clinking sporks. Such surface similarities, at the age of fourteen, seemed indicative of a deeper likeness.“Why are y’all on the ground?” asked Roxy, the Jewels’ captain, a senior. They weren’t sure how long she’d been standing there, her shadow…

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