The Enforcer

Readers Theatre: A Short Story of adventure and heroism for Young Adults

Theme: bullying vs heroism.

Summery: Rock Rogers never thought of himself as a hero, a bully, yes, but a hero, never in his wildest dreams. Then one sunny afternoon, while whitewater rafting with his younger sister and brother, he turned his life around.

An Excerpt:

Without warning, he hit another wave train, but this was not one of your regular wave trains. This had a warning written in the mist that rose from the watery discharge as if from the fist of an avalanche, words he had only caught snippets of back at the resort, words like: irregular . . . under-water debris . . .dangerous . . . some can kill.

With no raft under him, Rock was driven deep into the water and came up choking for air half a dozen times, then was sucked back down, deeper still and into a hole. “Holes can kill,” he had heard the lead guide say. He found himself pinned between two rocks. The more he fought, the more the vice-like grip of the water drove him deeper and deeper down into the crevice between the two rocks. He fought desperately, like a crazy man, but could do nothing to save himself, could only feel the energy being sucked out of his body, like a milkshake through a straw until his ears popped with the gurgle of a straw sucking at empty air. “God, please God, don’t let me die.” He heard his own words ringing in his head like a prayer shouted to the heavens. “Let me live and I’ll change my ways.”