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    Guys Read: The Meat Grinder: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
    Guys Read: The Meat Grinder: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
    Guys Read: The Meat Grinder: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
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    Guys Read: The Meat Grinder: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages

    By Chris Crutcher

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    If Devin Mack can't actually fight his father, he's going to fight everyone he can find on the football field.

    This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9780062243577
    Guys Read: The Meat Grinder: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
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    Chris Crutcher

    Chris Crutcher has written nine critically acclaimed novels, an autobiography, and two collections of short stories. Drawing on his experience as a family therapist and child protection specialist, Crutcher writes honestly about real issues facing teenagers today: making it through school, competing in sports, handling rejection and failure, and dealing with parents. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the ALAN Award, and the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award. Chris Crutcher lives in Spokane, Washington.

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      Guys Read - Chris Crutcher

      THE MEAT GRINDER

      BY CHRIS CRUTCHER

      I count from the front of the line back to me. Four. Then I count four down from the front of the line across from me. Rich Saxon. Thirty-five pounds heavier, a full second faster in the forty. The forty. Probably an hour faster in the hundred. I run a hundred yards in about the time it takes to get a haircut. If you’re third in line.

      Saxon is All-Conference.

      I’m All-Mack, my family name. But I’m second-string All-Mack and I’m an only child.

      I live in Sherman, Idaho. Population 867. Elevation 5,281. One foot over a mile high. In its heyday, Sherman was a booming logging town, but someone forgot to tell the logging companies that when they cut down a tree, they should probably plant one, trees being finite and all. The trees around Sherman eventually went the way of the buffalo on America’s Great Plains. Where it once appeared the supply was inexhaustible, the supply is now exhausted, has been for twenty years.

      The town fathers, and mothers, have reinvented Sherman in the past three decades. It is not an invention you would grant a patent. Government money in the late 1980s allowed most merchants to renew their storefronts with an Austrian alpine look, investors from Boise and in some cases from as far north as Lewiston put money into a small ski resort and nine-hole golf course, and the nearby South Fork

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