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    The Prospect
    The Prospect
    The Prospect
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    The Prospect

    By Zack Drisko

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    Georgia native Austin Colt had always been blessed with a golden right arm. As far back as he could remember, it had been able to produce a blistering fastball that zipped right past batters and rocketed him ever closer to his dream of becoming a great major league pitcher.

    But in the first inning of his major league debut, something in Austin’s arm popped, and it suddenly became just an arm. It could brush his teeth, sign a birthday card, and pet a dog. Useful, functional, and utterly incapable of throwing a baseball past a professional hitter.

    “The Prospect” explores the longing and passion for an unrealized dream, as Austin struggles to come to terms with losing the one thing in his life that made him feel special.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZack Drisko
    Release dateMay 9, 2012
    ISBN9781476231037
    The Prospect
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    Zack Drisko

    My name is Zack Drisko. I write, direct, take pictures, watch MMA, and root for the New York Mets. I grew up in Syracuse, New York, went to college in North Carolina, and now live in Los Angeles.

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      The Prospect - Zack Drisko

      The Prospect

      A short story by Zack Drisko

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Zack Drisko

      Cover photo by Arielle Davidsohn, Vanguardian Photography

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      The Prospect

      If you asked the folks of Boonpickin, Georgia, to name the greatest baseball player they ever saw, Austin Colt would surely be among the names you heard most. They’d tell you how the six-foot-fiver rocked back slowly, dawdling to collect himself, as quiet as the eye of a hurricane. They’d tell you how he’d uncoil with the suddenness and ferocity of a rattlesnake striking venom into its dinner, the result so blistering that it couldn’t be seen, only heard, as it crackled against the humid Georgian air.

      You might begin to think that Austin Colt was some sort of mythical hero, that Paul Bunyan merely traded in his axe for a pair of metal spikes and a five-ounce sphere of cowhide. As tall as the tales might be, Austin Colt was indeed as real as you or me. He was born to Jim and Jodie Colt and came to possess one of the best fastballs in the southeastern United States. The scouts who descended upon the town elbowed each other out of

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