Short story by Joshua Lawrence Durkin

As debutants in the highly competitive Saigon International Schools Staff League, our staff football team has been busy proving that we haven’t just joined this year to make up the numbers.

Orbs of glowing light circled and danced like miniature stars, twisting and turning with the brimming excitement of child wonder. Rows and rows of ordered cacophony all coming together to huddle in the middle.

There once was a little boy/He wished that he had a toy/He begged for it every year/He always burst into tears