The Mascot

By Drew Banton

A young girl from a troubled family shares a love of baseball with her uncle. This is a short story of approximately 4400 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Drew Banton
• Release date: Mar 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310500336

Drew Banton

Drew Banton has published novels, novellas and stories. He has had pieces appear in Event Horizon online magazine and Bicycling Magazine. He has worked as a printer, welder, auto mechanic, bicycle frame builder, industrial mechanic and manufacturing engineer. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. When not writing he can usually be found walking his dog or trying to keep up with his grandson.

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The Mascot

by

Drew Banton

The Industrial Strength Press

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Also by Drew Banton:

A Dangerous Job

The Gurry Room (novella)

The Jack (short story)

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Authors Note: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.

Screech, screech, crunch, clatter. Screech, screech, crunch, clatter.

Mary Beth was excited as she ran to the front window. Something good was happening in the neighborhood, something she could watch safely from inside. Grownups were doing bad things. This was a high form of entertainment as long as it happened at a safe distance.

Katherine, her mother, was hurrying to the front of the apartment right behind the small girl but with a sense of dread. She had a pretty good idea who was responsible for the noise. But she couldn’t figure out what he was doing to cause it.

The daughter, kneeling on a chair to peer over the sill, had the curtain parted. The mother leaned over her to see out, her hand resting on the child’s shoulder. A large car, pale under the blue streetlight, was moving backwards rapidly along the curb in front of the house.

Screech.