5 Seconds for a Winner

By Michael Allender

The thirteenth in a series of fourteen books by Abbie Joules about her brother, Bendigo, as they grew up on their hard-scrabble farm in east Texas. Ben’s high school classmate, Ziggy Pugh, an undersized nerd with an oversized ambition, desperately wants to play football. With everything on the line in the last few seconds of the district title game, Ben, the team star player, has to make a decision about whether his own ambition to play football in college is more important than Ziggy having one chance in a lifetime to play just one time. The choice he makes has far reaching consequences, for both himself, Ziggy, and Abbie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Allender
• Release date: Apr 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781370205301

Michael Allender

I was born in Dalhart, Texas, received degrees at Texas A&M in Wildlife Science and Psychology, and did post graduate work at Utah State in ethology. I worked as a professional photographer and wildlife artist, and authored "The Guadalupe Mountains Of Texas", published by the University of Texas Press, a coffee table book of a west Texas national park. I then worked for 25 years as a wood craftsman and entrepreneur. I currently live in Redmond, Oregon, and avail myself of every opportunity to paddle the wild rivers of the Pacific Northwest, from California to northern Canada and Alaska.

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FIVE SECONDS FOR A WINNER

by

Michael Allender

Copyright 2014 Michael Allender

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Five Seconds for a Winner

(Story # 13)

Ziggy.

Can't say I ever knew him by any other name. For years I didn't even know if he had another name, not until my sister, Kissy, sent me a copy of the Navasota Star from back home. There could be no mistaking his image, the biggest photo I'd ever seen in the paper.

Ben and Ziggy Pugh were the same age, and in the same high school in Navasota, but the semblance ended there. Ben, a lank, tightly strung boy, was uncommonly good looking, spare and hard as barked cordwood. Got his looks from Mom. His physique came from hours spent mucking out milking stalls, tossing bales of alfalfa and cleaving slats off