We asked writers to send us 24-word stories or poems in response to Kobe Bryant’s significant legacy.
Superman isn’t supposed to die, Morris said after the game, and he’s right. Ever since Clemente, it’s become something of a default in America.
Evan Fleischer
Prescient was the King. He told us what you were, warned us how we’d feel. Doesn’t change how we sat—the distance we wept.
B. K. Elroy
I’m innocent.
Furious at myself.
I’m a human being.
I’m a man just like everybody else.
I mourn.
I cry.
Just like everybody else.
From “Dear Basketball“
Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker
To the schoolchildren who throw paper towel basketballs:
this message is for you
Keep on shouting his name, aiming, shooting.
Keep his Legacy alive.
Christina DeAngelis
the pill slips
from black tips
birthing
a forever name
on lips and lips
goat debates
love and hate
the crux
of dreams fulfilled
Drew Bond
Shannon Wolf
