The Ball Park Boys

Excerpt from Making Money He then gave Tommy a hard pull on both of his ears causing him to cry out and fall to the ground Gary lunged towards the nasty smelly man but I moved quicker and jumped in front of him I knew as quick as the razor sharp knife had disappeared into his pocket it could reappear The Ball Park Boys always stuck together and would defend each other but this wasn t a fight they could win today I m giving you ten traps and if you want to make some money catch me some muskrats Don t screw up their hides and you better not loose any of my traps you little punks got that the nasty smelly man said as he glared at us with those beady mean looking eyes Gary and Tommy both had a look on their face that I had not seen before The look wasn t one when we had been behind in a baseball or football game and the other team would taunt us or call us names This look was different This look was one of anger and bitterness I knew one day I may not be able to stop them should we encounter the nasty smelly man and he started messing with Tommy again Excerpt from The Best Boat Ever We are now going faster and backwards down the rapids In unison Tommy and Jerald who had not said a word since we launched began screaming at the tops of their lungs They knew the end was near They wouldn t even get to see what large tree or rock that we would crash in to would send them flying out backwards and then watch as our new death wagon slowly Fall on top them pushing them to their watery graves These thoughts made them scream even louder I still had a death grip on my pole and was keeping it under water as we raced backwards Suddenly it stuck in the mud and sand on the bottom knocking me forward into the backs Of Jerald and Tommy This made them only scream louder as they knew the end was near I never let go of the grip on my pole and as I regained my balance our boat miraculously stopped and very slowly the front began to turn back into the middle of