The Boy Who Gave Up the Race to Save His Rival

his head.

“That’s the wrong finish line.”

At school, the laughing had started small.

A look in the hallway.

A joke near the lockers.

Somebody took a picture of his old shoes before Coach gave him the better pair and passed it around with a caption Marcus never got to see but could feel.

The worst of it came from Bryce Chandler.

Bryce was not the biggest kid continue reading …