Crossing Boarders: Part 1

By J Alan Dietterich

6 young kids ravel to Philadelphia to have a fun day of street boarding. Until they become witnesses to a mob hit and start running for there lives from gun wielding gangsters hell bent on tying up loose ends. Their only hope is to escape the city, but how?

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Mar 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781489739933

J Alan Dietterich

Jay wrote this brook from the parental fears of raising 5 rowdy boys and knowing murphy's law is in full swing. While attending the Academy of art University He studied animation and story writing when the kids were in school and sports, that's when the story was born out of his fear driven imagination.

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ISBN: 978-1-4897-3992-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4897-3993-3 (e)

LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 02/09/2022

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IT WAS A HOT SUMMER day in the small town of Colmar, in the noisy Davis house.

10:00 in the morning, gunshots explode! from the back room as the roaring of machines thunder through the sunlit hallway. His hand on the worn door-knob opens the door with a squeak and a clack of the latch. As the door opens, the smell of musty clothes and cat piss hits Tyler like a punch in the face.

In the slightly organized but messy bedroom, with posters on the walls of Tony Hawk and clothes on the floor in a pile near the unmade bed. Sits a 10 year old playing computer games.

Tyler comes through the doorway scratching his head of sun bleached blond hair. He’s carrying his skate board in one hand and a backpack on his sweat covered boney scarred up shoulder getting ready to fill it with water bottles for the day of skating in the city. He’s been skating for six years and he seems to all his friends to be pretty talented and is widely known in town for his skateboard acrobatics. He turns his head to see through the adjacent open doorway to Dylan sitting in front of the TV with the game controller in his hands. The skinny ten year old is on the cookie crumb covered but comfortable leather chair with his bare feet in a scattering of bubble gum wrappers staring intensely at the screen with the Black Ops. Game blasting out of the speakers.

DYLAN! Tyler screams.

Turn it down Mom wants to talk to you, now!

What? Dylan says as he gets up.

TURN IT DOWN! Tyler screams as the sound disappears.

Mom wants to talk to you. He continues.

Dylan walks through the hallway catching a wiff of Tyler and the day old cat-food sitting in the dish on the hallway floor. He covers his nose and goes into her bedroom. She lies halfway sitting feet dangling over the side in her queen bed, groggy, wiping the sleep from her eyes, she sits up in bed.

Do you want to go to Wal-Mart with Mom-mom, Sonnie and me? She yawns.

I guess. He says sadly looking at the ground as he sits on the side of the bed.Tyler bursts into the room too excited to notice the conversation already going on.

Can I get some bucks from you for lunch and gas?

Tyler, I‘m in the middle of this! Sherry says holding an index finger up to her lips, he cocks his head back, eyes rolling back as he backs out the door realizing he just spoke out of turn in the plans for the day.

Where’s he going? Dylan asks, his eyes searching her bedraggled face for the truth. Just skating Dylan. She says getting out of bed, grabbing a robe off the bedpost.

Can I go? He says, with hope in his eyes.

Just wait here, Ok.

She leaves the room and goes up stairs. An argument breaks out in the upstairs bedroom with Mom yelling about the mess in the room that better get cleaned or they are not going anywhere. She faces off with Tyler about the money and how he’s planning on paying her back.

Dylan sits at the bottom of the stairs thinking about the conversation he overhears that has happened over and over for as far back as he can remember. The laundry, sweeping, cleaning the bathroom and kitchen floor or whatever it takes is usually what he does to get what he wants. That’s what