>> This one started out as a free verse poem, then morphed. I didn't realize just how dark this was going to go until it was finished.<<

Yeah, that happens sometimes.

>> I just hope it was realistic; I've never been in a schoolyard fight, thank God, and I didn't want either the odds or the scuffle itself to seem implausible. <<

It sounds realistic to me.

>>I may end up writing something about Kendra's father, now. <<

I liked how the next story turned out too.