Pride (Paperback)
Title: Pride (as Lazaros Zigomanis) Publisher: Busybird Publishing Publication Date: 27 April 2017 Category: Young Adult Fiction Format: Paperback (234x153mm, 292 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-925585-24-7 Hardback: 978-1-925585-89-6 Ebook: 978-1-925585-25-4 Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them. Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life – the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, and drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local who’s smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can’t be too late, can it? There’s the Ravens, at least, although the team’s little more than battlers.…
CSM: Chapter 20.
20. What Could Be. We left the MCG and walked back to the Birmingham Hotel. There were people celebrating everywhere. Disconsolate Essendon supporters were nowhere to seen. Some would’ve left early. I don’t know about others. Maybe they simply became invisible. Or, possibly, they hid their colours to escape ridicule and even abuse – not that any discriminating Collingwood supporter would ever abuse an Essendon supporter, of course. I thought about that idiot Essendon supporter I’d argued with when Essendon had beaten us earlier in the year, how he’d said the only way Collingwood would win a flag was to return to the VFL. I wondered where he was now,…
