Stalemate (The Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – MS Runner-Up)
By: Tara Kannan They had been playing the same game for eight months. Not continuously. Just… paused. The board sat on Elle’s desk, still between textbooks and an expiring fern fading into obscurity. Shades of gray dust gently covered the black squares. A white knight had a chip in its mane. A pawn was missing […]
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