Road Kill

by Christopher CJX Joseph

Often times it’s not enough to be just us
We is the new I
We pimp dark shades, just to see;
The justice. (Tagline)

Tragedy has the unmistakable task of finding you at your most vulnerable moment.

Two adolescent brothers’ lives are forever shattered by the untimely murder of their beloved mother at the hands of their disgruntled father who had accused her of an affair.

Fate takes the brothers on two separate, distinctive paths, forever shaping them to who they are as young men. When their paths rejoins thirteen years later, Rashon Turner is now a city dweller while Jaymon Turner lives a small town life, inspired in part by Aesop’s tale of City Mouse, Country Mouse.

Rashon is classified as an urban statistic, a young streetwise deviant, black and dangerous, ex-con on the run searching for some type of solstice.

Jaymon, once promising; is a silent statistic, an atypical lackadaisical youth lost and confused, disaffected “baby boy” attempting to find his path in life.

Two separate; but life-changing parallel accidents crashes both of their lives right back in tandem with catastrophic results.

Pushed by the law and dark forces wanting to crush their very existence, fate once again pushes two desperate young men on a bumpy but exciting new path to clear their names and find deeper meaning in their lives.

FIRST IN A TWO PART SERIES.

Available to order now! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XQQYLSC

145 pages, ebook

First published May 20, 2013

About the author

"Stories fill my mind just as sand fills a vase."

My writing inspiration is sprawling novels that sweep readers away in atmospheric murder mysteries, thrilling adventures, political corruption, fraud, and love lost. 'Leaping Into the Abyss' is comparable to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series or James Patterson's Alex Cross series, with a touch of magical realism and cultural elements, such as my hometown hero Virginia Hamilton's The House of Dies Drear.

I am the self-published author of three additional novels: the action/drama Roadkill Pathfinder Pt. I and Roadkill Crossroads Pt. II and the family drama Eat@Zeke's. I first self-published periodicals when I was fourteen.

Discover more at Landofunk.com.

Christopher Joseph currently resides in Ohio with his family.

Review of Eat@Zeke's by Chandra Claypool of 'Where the Reader Grows" Blog, March 2019.
"The characters are a lot of fun, and I love that they all center around Mama. Their closeness because of her is on point. The community as a whole is fantastic. I love that you're doing something different, so the work stands out!"