The Chosen Bowler

Jerry Landry
4 min readMar 7, 2024
Orange bowling ball moving down an alley toward a ten pin setup.
Photo by Michelle McEwen on Unsplash

Nick Colton wasn’t bowling’s biggest fan. For years he was no fan at all. Aside from intermittent childhood birthday parties, Nick never even entered an alley.

What Nick Colton was, was ferociously competitive. A condition that effectively rendered him a sociopath within the bounds of sport. As much as Nick loved winning, it never compared to how much losing sucked. Losing was for losers, a toxic punishment worse than death. Every…

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