Short Story Contest: Finalist #11

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Playing the Hero by Peter Ramsey
Rockbridge Academy - Anne Arundel County, Maryland

When I left my parents' house for good, I took five things with me: my iPod; the rusting old brass knuckles I'd inherited at age 5; the boomerang I'd acquired in New Zealand; the precious key I was setting out to protect; and the ancient but well-kept samurai sword that had long hung on the wall in the house I no longer called home. My parents, of course, had objected to my leaving, but I had been given the key. I needed to get it to the Arthur Rose building in the next city as fast as I could. For what purpose, I didn't know. But I did know that the world hung in the balance.

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Short Story Finalist Peter Ramsey Is This Week's Crofton Patch Whiz Kid!

GBF short story contest finalist Peter Ramsey is this week's Crofton Whiz Kid... and they've got video!

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