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Phineas: A Short Story
I could see them off in the distance. Running around like madmen in the lush, green playing fields, playing that game Phineas had made up. Gene was there like always, he two of them were practically attached at the hip. I was trodding with Jakob to the locker rooms to change for swim practice, coach said that we still had to practice despite nationals being cancelled because of the war. I looked wistfully at the other boys enjoying the brilliant blue sky and the gentle, whispering breeze. I specifically watched Phineas as he ran around down there. He had this cat-like grace to him that the game of blitzball accented perfectly. Whenever he possessed the ball, he twisted and turned from the others with a smoothness that no other could achieve.
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