Elysian Shadows

My dad spends about half of his free time scraping on home-made bows.
When he was younger he used to skip classes to go to the archery range.
He made me a new bow out of osage orange wood.
The other day I shot in an archery competition. The competition is split up into classes, each one with its own 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
At the end of the day when they were announcing the winners I heard, "Women's compound class, 1st place is Cindy Bagget, 2nd place is Margie Joel, 3rd place is Joney Silverton." and so on.

Finally, when it got to my class, he said, "1st place goes to (insert my name here)." So I went up and got my trophy, feeling rather surprised that I had won.

After saying my name, he just went on to the next class.

I then realised how much of a loser I was. I only won because I was the only person my age that actually entered the contest.

I made it possible to be the best, yet be better than nobody, at the same time.


Of course my bow is awesome like me. My dad did everything from cutting down the tree to making the leather grip. He also makes his own arrows.

Tell me, is anyone more awesome than me?

Cool. I suck at archery. Congrats.

Gangsta Wutai should walk about town with bow turned horizontal all cross bow style y'all.

Does anyone here actually know how to shoot a bow well? Does anybody here actually have a bow? If you have one, do you even know what kind it is? (longbow, recurve, compound, etc...)

Sadly, mainly hicks shoot bows. My family can be traced back to hicks and drunken Irish men, so I am a hick at heart.

In case somebody here doesn't know what a hick is, I'll tell you.

1.) A hick is someone who considers a Macintosh a computer.
2.) A hick is someone who carries a shotgun in the back of his pickup truck.
3.) A hick is someone who makes wind chimes out of a beer cans.