Strikeout

By Christopher Ridge

All Timmy wants is to be a great baseball player. Only problem is, he stinks. He strikes out every time he is up to bat. To make matters worse he is constantly being beaten up by bullies.

After the last game, Timmy thinks there is no chance of him ever being a great player.

Until his neighbor, Mr. Ramsy shows up at his doorstep and gives him a gift that will forever change the way he plays the game.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher Ridge
• Release date: Sep 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386755890

Christopher Ridge

Christopher Ridge is a creature feature horror and sci-fi writer. He enjoys B horror movies, aliens, monsters and mutant insects and such. To get an idea of what his stories and short novels are like think ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, THEM, and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. He lives in Indianapolis Indiana with his wife and two sons.

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The smell of hot dogs in the air. The crowd cheering as Timmy swung the bat for strike two. All these games and so late in the season and he didn’t get one hit.

Not one single hit.

Ten games and not even so much as a foul tip.

All he wanted was one hit. Just one.

Easy out. Easy out, Buck Ryan said from the first base.

Kid can’t hit the side of a barn, Sammy said.

C’mon, Johnny. Just throw him a fast one across the plate and put the poor butt-stain out of his misery, Buck said.

The opposite team chanted, hey batta batta batta.

Hey batter look at me. I’m a monkey in a tree.

Timmy hated when they chanted like that. Made him nervous.

His palms were sweaty. His hands shaking.

I’m going to strike out. I just know it.

He glanced at the bleachers. He wished his mom and dad would come to at least one of his games. All the other kids parents came.

Why no mine?

His mother said playing baseball was a waste of time. His father was always busy at work and hardly ever came home.

At night he laid in bed listening to them fighting. Usually over him.

His grades in school.

Other kids picking on him and his father wishing he would fight back.

He overheard his father saying to his mother that he wondered why he was spending so much time practicing baseball and that if he