One of the Boys: Part III

by Victoria Zeller
A lot has changed for Grace Woodhouse, a star kicker for her high school football team, since she came out as trans. Her senior year is a new start, and Grace forges a new path to unite her past and present.

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Part I, Part II, Part III.
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  1. ambient
    completely enveloping
    I racked the bar with the help of my teammates and inhaled for the first time in forever, letting the ambient BO smell of the student weight room pummel my sinuses.
  2. logistical
    of or relating to the management of an operation or event
    It’d pose logistical difficulties—I was taller than her by, like, a lot— but I wondered what it’d be like to be small, to be held.
  3. compulsory
    required by rule
    It’s my honor to invite you to the football house for the party.”
    I blinked. “Uh—”
    “Attendance not compulsory,” he clarified. “But recruits always get
    invited.”
  4. chronic
    long-lasting or characterized by long suffering
    I heard Rhoads grunt as he rose to his feet. He tried to hide his chronic pain,
    but I’d spent enough time around him to know when he was having a bad day.
  5. doppelganger
    a ghostly double that haunts its living counterpart
    I watched my mirror doppelganger touch the ends of her hair like she wasn’t sure it was real.
  6. gangly
    tall, thin, and awkward
    I settled into the chair that Riley dragged into the bathroom and looked at the gangly girl with freckles in the mirror again.
  7. objectively
    in a manner not influenced by emotion
    My hair was, objectively, kind of a mess.
  8. schism
    division of a group into opposing factions
    I was so distracted that I barely got to appreciate the newly reunified lunch table, brought back together once the schism was mended.
  9. iota
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
    None of it made an iota of sense.
  10. quartermaster
    an officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops
    “You wanna be our chief of staff, Jame-o? Our quartermaster?”
  11. literally
    in a sense limited to explicit meaning
    I dug my heels into the turf, literally and figuratively.
  12. figuratively
    in a non-literal sense
    I dug my heels into the turf, literally and figuratively.
  13. fitful
    occurring in spells and often abruptly
    When I did manage to sleep, it was in fitful stops and starts, brief moments of peace interrupted by misery.
  14. impasse
    a situation in which no progress can be made
    We hit an impasse maybe a half hour later, after the sun went down and Dad got home from work.
  15. posterity
    all future generations
    Today’s junior prom, and you’re in Zoe’s backyard to take pictures for 1) posterity and 2) the Gram.
Created on Tue Mar 17 06:19:11 EDT 2026 (updated Thu Apr 23 19:25:50 EDT 2026)

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