Running on the Edge of Glory by Kathy M. Storrie
This is a fiction story about a young teenage boy named, Joel Joseph, who witnesses the horrible murders of his sweet ministerial parents. And to think it was all over a measly $8.53 in the church offering plate. Joel and his sister, Noel, are devastated and in shock! When the ambulance doors shut behind their parents bodies, the two children burst into blood curdling screams. Joel jumps up and takes off running into the dark night. His sister yells for him to come back but she collapses into the arms of a neighbor.
Joel runs and screams wildly down the street and he karate kicks every garbage can in his path. A few gang members perk up and are tempted to follow him until they see his awesome butterfly kicks. In the middle of the night, Joel jumps off a bridge into Central Park and walks until he reaches a wicked looking bridge. There he meets an old man who sounds familiar and looks like Morgan Freeman. There’s something mysterious about the old man that gives Joel chills on top of his chills.
Joel started sleeping in run-down clapboard apartment buildings where cock-roaches used his warm body him as a highway to find food. That was until the landlord kicked him out the back door yelling obscenities and threatening him to not come back. Joel just gave him the finger and told him to go to Hell.
