The tale, a standalone novelette, is about a boy that's on the wrong side of the state he lives in. "This whole thing makes me feel like I wanna go home."

Shy boys always lose, unless they find a way to win. The new boy crashes the party the final days of the school year, where he feels the suspicious eyes of the 6th-grade boys upon him. Football, basketball, track & field - the playground sports throw him into a must-win situation: he either comes up big on Field Day under the American Flag or else nobody wants you... not one other boy.