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A 100 word drabble inspired by Bru's short story Cheerleader Material
I'm not sure which State this story takes place in...
I'm not sure which State this story takes place in...
AFTER THE BIG GAME
by Laika Pupkino ~ 2018
by Laika Pupkino ~ 2018
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Our defeat at the hands of Middledale High's team was humiliating, the bus ride home was even worse.
Coach Williams was furious: “Never in fourteen years of coaching have I had such a pathetic bunch of sissies for a team! Maybe you ladies aren't cut out to be football players! Maybe you'd rather be at home in your frilly nightgowns, putting on makeup and fixing each other's hair! Maybe-”
He droned on like this: Sissies, ladies, girls and every other 'unmanly' term he could think of.
Our quarterback Jimmy Thomson looked over at me in alarm, whispering: “Ohmigod! He KNOWS!”
Comments
Maybe Coach is only jealous
They should invite him as well.
No amount of lipstick and
No amount of lipstick and liner can cover the venom spewing from his mouth...plus every time I hear one of those angry macho men speak I think he is secretly dressing at home and ashamed of himself so inviting him to become a lady might be terrible for him...
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
Ooooh
sign me up!
Love, Andrea Lena
Sounds like he just gave the football team permission
for a sleepover! Team building, yay.
The Ladies From Hell
Thanks for all the appreciative comments, everybody!
I wrote this as a drabble to get to the punchline as quickly as possible,
but I now see how it can be expanded:
We thought the coach was just usual asshole self when he said:
"Aw hell! If you're gonna play like a buncha damn girls I'll let Miss Fisher coach you....
But sure enough at our next practice there she was.
Coach Janet Fisher figures out what the problem is right away.
Orders cute new uniforms and encourages her team to be themselves,
Teaching them you can be a girl and a badass too. The nominally male football team
goes on to a series of amazing victories, earning the nickname: THE LADIES FROM HELL
(with apologies to the Scottish Army for stealing their moniker)
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Coach Williams
Add some make-up and appliances and we have...
Coach Janet Fisher!
Coach Fisher ...
... sounds awesome! I had one female coach, and she was just ... amazing. Instead of tryin' to get me to "man up" (whatever that means), she let me be myself. I think it was the only year I didn't hate phys ed!
I Imagine
The whole team mincing out onto the playing field, wrists limp, blowing kisses to their opponents.
If not
He does now?
Sounds like...
... Coach Williams was a former marine sergeant.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)