Charlie Holloway has great friends, good grades, a steady part-time job he actually likes, and athletic ability that makes him a star in two sports, but recently it's all felt rather hollow. However, when childhood friend Theo Broussard comes back into his life, Charlie is shaken out of a years-long daze that has left him coasting through his teenage years. Theo just happening to be the star player for his school's biggest rival and his first crush only complicates matters further. When things get difficult, Charlie finds himself forced to choose between his current life following the path of least resistance or a harder but possibly more fulfilling one. "Only to feel this fully, this entire, the way snow touched bare skin & is suddenly, no longer snow" -Ocean Vuong, "Devotion" from Night Sky with Exit Wounds [Re-edited 4/18/20]

Colton Peters is the smallest boy in the lacrosse team, people wonder why he's even in the team because he never gets to play and is always on the bench. Being on the bench isn't Colton's problem however, he has a list of them and he goes by trying to live life, solving out himself one step at a time and not adding anymore problems to the list. Unfortunately, the transferred new guy, Brett Adams starts becoming part of his problems. Or was he the solutions? © CriticallyIntense