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Chapter 1 Excerpt.............."Annie's Nemesis"
Corny was tall and skinny, but with a body that was hard from an everyday diet of knuckle sandwiches delivered by his older brothers. He had been smoking since he was six, and quit brushing his teeth about the same time. His yellow teeth matched his yellow eyes, which were the color of caution lights, and like a caution light flashed a continuous warning of danger ahead. He had a face like a scarecrow with a smile that resembled a dried up ear of corn. His brothers had given him the nickname Corny and he hated it. You better not get caught calling him that or you would definitely pay for it over and over. Corny was very unforgiving.
Chapter 4 Excerpt................."Kat Sees Rickwood"
Never in her life had she seen the color green like she saw it that afternoon. The symmetry of the grass and dirt with chalk lines so straight God must have reached down from heaven with the world’s largest yardstick to draw them. The graceful movement of the players as they went through the motions of throwing, catching and batting this little white ball that all at once had never seemed as white as it did at that moment. The sound of each throw, each catch, each hit that amplified off the outfield walls and resonated back into the stands, was so loud you could almost feel the ball as it hit your palm, and the vibration of the bat as it connected for a hit.
