"Backboard Warrior" (Short Novel, Play ?)
Despair, escape, survival, these are the daily thoughts that
assail Mathew Joshua Hood, he was born to a hostile world where in all
appearances it seemed he was four steps behind from the onset. He and his
family reside on what he sees as a tenuous beachhead in a continuous war for
true freedom and acceptance outside of the prison walls of prejudice and
hate built by his society. Born with the heart of a warrior his rage is
sometimes without bounds, he fights as mush against himself as against the
debasing aspects of his world at large. The basketball court has become his
primary field of battle and upon it he wages war with the skills of long
dead generals. The question in all of this being, will he develop the
focused discipline to become a soldier before the fires of his warriors
heart engulfs all that he holds dear?
