Previous Trials are just three weeks later. In Rhetia, this is a one-day competition. The winner, along with the National Champion, automatically makes the World Team, but the other four gymnasts will be chosen by the coaches. I was seventh at Nationals among the gymnasts who were at least sixteen, but if I’d made fewer […]

Previous We enter the stadium through a separate entrance from the horde of spectators waiting in line. We have a small team; aside from Sunlissia and I, thirteen-year-old Greesatina Swirl is Niche’s only other elite-level gymnast. Greesatina is Coach Trili’s niece. We start on the Bars with Andon Gymnastics. There are just two of them. […]

“We’ll be staying at Narana’s,” Mom says. “Ooh! I can’t wait to see their house.” Sunlissia is my parents’ adopted daughter. She is four years older than me, twenty-one, and very interested in all things art. “Ktine?” “Yeah, I heard you the first time, Mom. Are the boys coming?” I have two brothers, Lenor and Torin. […]