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    Guys Read: Max Swings for the Fences: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
    Guys Read: Max Swings for the Fences: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
    Guys Read: Max Swings for the Fences: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
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    Guys Read: Max Swings for the Fences: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages

    By Anne Ursu

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    Maximilian Funk is the new kid in school, and not much of a baseball fan, a deadly combination. He has to figure out a way to impress Molly Kinsman, the best pitcher in the city and the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. One little lie couldn't hurt, could it?

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9780062243546
    Guys Read: Max Swings for the Fences: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages
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    Anne Ursu

    Anne Ursu is the author of The Shadow Thieves, The Siren Song, and The Immortal Fire, all books in the Cronus Chronicles series. She has also written novels for adults. Anne teaches at Hamline University's Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children for Young Adults. She lives in Minneapolis with her son and cats.

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      Guys Read - Anne Ursu

      MAX SWINGS FOR THE FENCES

      BY ANNE URSU

      It wasn’t as if Maximilian Funk didn’t know that things were going to go badly. After all, there’s no good that can come out of being a new kid in school, especially when you’ve just moved halfway across the country, especially especially in the middle of the year. Nothing says Give me a wedgie and hang me from the flagpole like waltzing into a new middle school in February at a time when there are no other new kids to hide behind.

      He knew things were going to go badly. If he knew just how badly they were actually going to go, though, he would have faked some illness that would keep him out of school for the rest of the year. Like Ebola.

      So Max slowly got ready for his first day at Willard Middle School, spending more time than anybody ever had trying to decide whether it would be better to wear a sweater and T-shirt or a sweater and button-down shirt. He just wanted to get it right. Max had spent his middle school life thus far working hard to be the sort of kid no one ever noticed, except perhaps to say Oh, I didn’t see you there. Because there were only two ways to get noticed in middle school, and Max was never going to be the kid who got noticed in a Good Way, like if he were a basketball stud or did something amazing like winning an ice cream–eating contest or solving one of Mrs. Bjork’s extra credit word problems. So that left the Bad Way. Better not to be noticed at all.

      When he got downstairs, his mom presented him with a Minnesota Twins cap, flashing him a huge I-know-I-ruined-your-life-but-I-bought-you-this-fabulous-hat-so-it’s-all-better-now smile. Now you’ll look like a native, she proclaimed.

      Max frowned. He did not wear baseball caps. Baseball caps only served to emphasize his ears. Which were already doing a

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