Here's another one of more recent extraction. 1853 words this time exploring the effects basketball tends to have on inner city youth.

Let me know if you wanna peek.

Here's the first 13:

The basketball shone. It was round, like any other, orange like any other, but even in the scuffed Nike gray of the afternoon sky, the ball seemed to glow.

The boys on the court had watched the ball's owner get out of a black SUV, had watched him reach back in for the ball, almost as an afterthought, had watched him begin to dribble, but had seen nothing else afterward.

The boys on the court had watched the ball's owner get out of a black SUV, had watched him reach back in for the ball, almost as an afterthought, had watched him begin to dribble, but had seen nothing else afterward.
@@@I wonder what this means. Did he vanish? Did the boys die? What does it mean that the boys "had seen nothing else afterward"?@@@