"That's the plan. Wrestle in college, try to get on the national team, wrestle in the 2020 Olympics. 2016's too soon, I'd barely be out of high school. From there, who knows; there's only so far you can take amateur wrestling, it's not like baseball or football." Still, if he got to Tokyo ...

"I'd say." Roderick actually liked the desert, even if Kingman could burn to the ground for all he cared, but he still chuckled a little at that last part. Pretty, ambitious, and not a bore to talk to, this Nadia was someone he could root for easily enough. Out west probably meant LA, whic...

"Hm." Even in jest, he didn't appreciate feeling talked down to, telegraphed by a little furrow of his brow and tightening at the corners of his mouth. It was gone as quickly as it appeared though, as he forced down the annoyance, tried to remind himself she almost certainly meant no harm....

Roderick took the phone in hand as if it would shatter into pieces if he gripped too hard, which maybe it would for all he knew, and had a look at what was on offer. He'd really meant any photography she'd done, but by the time he realised he'd misspoken, whoops, too late. Well, it wasn't all bad at...

"Nadia, huh? Nice name." He'd definitely remember it, she kind of stood out and he didn't know any other Nadias off the top of his head. The party had long since faded to nothing in his mind, nothing but faint background noise buzzing in the gaps in their conversation. At least she was int...

"Just keep working at it, I'm sure you'll figure something out. You've at least got a start." That was what his coach and his parents always said, 'keep working'. Nothing was out of reach if you were willing to just work at it, even if you had to push yourself until your hair fell out. The...

"Vogue, huh?" A big goal, but then, so was being state champion, or going off to wrestle in the Olympics one day. So many people here had no goal at all, big or small. They were content to just... be. Didn't they understand how limited their time was? Didn't they see there was a whole worl...

"It's not all posturing." A half-hearted defence for a party he only had half a heart for. Appropriate. He found himself more interested in the little bit of information she volunteered, a little chuckle even escaping him as she called the assorted attendees "drunk assholes". How...

"I'm no party expert, but this really isn't a good example of one. Unless your thing is getting drunk and listening to bad music, which it doesn't seem to be." Parties weren't all the roaring inferno of excess and hedonism the silver screen made them out to be, especially since when those ...

"No." Well, that was a little blunt, but he couldn't resist not answering honestly when someone actually seemed interested in what he thought. "I like parties, not being gawked at like an exhibit." Yes, winning a championship was impressive. Anyone could have done it if they'd pu...

A tiny trickle of sweat at his hairline served as answer, but the voice caught his attention anyway and the speaker kept it. A little bit of healthy irreverence, in this miserable dust bowl of a "city" that decided he might as well have descended from Mount Olympus, was almost as refreshin...

Another party, another room full of Kingmanites who wanted to hear about how he pinned 195 pounds of pissed off white kid to do what hardly any Kingman wrestler - and none outside good old Cochise High - had ever done before. What was there to tell that hadn't been told, hadn't been on the video tha...

Name: Crisanto Luz Gender: Male Age: 18 Grade: 12th School: Cochise High School Hobbies and Interests: Baseball, old media, recreational marijuana use, history, hiking, parties/socialisation Appearance: Crisanto has a pitcher's body. At 5'10" and 171 pounds, he is tall and naturally slender, w...

Name: Roderick Kanuho Gender: Male Age: 18 Grade: 12th School: Cochise High School Hobbies and Interests: Wrestling, literary fiction, poetry, driving, mixed martial arts, swimming, cooking, traditional Navajo culture, biology, medicine Appearance: Roderick stands at 5'9", and has a non-compet...

Posted by: Slayer Jun 17 2006, 07:45 AM If there was one place Alexander "Blade" Stevens found dull above all others, it was Bathurst High school. Endless hours of people doing nothing but talk at him, that's all that happened there. He couldn't even bully the teachers into letting him ski...