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This is where I'll be interviewing character from different books, novels and short stories. If you're an author and you would like your character to be interviewed, please send me an email.
Dylan Jones from Riches to Rags
Tell me a little about yourself and the world you live in.
I’m Dylan Jones and I’m a seventh
grader at Langdon
Middle School
Tell us your most closely guarded secret?
Well, in my history class, old lady
Wickware had us pick a name or subject out of this box and then an oral report
is due – you know, boring stuff, right?
Anyway, the paper I pick has the word Orphan Train on it. Well Wickware put her hand on my shoulder and
WHAM – I am standing at a train depot in 1875!
I am staring at the actual Orphan Train.
I’m serious! You can’t make this
stuff up!
Tell us about your single most important memory. What
was it and how does it affect you now?
You won’t believe this but this
man, no this jerk, drops a little boy and a baby – no joke, a baby, off at the
cement platform outside the depot. Then
this…this…man just leaves. They are
crying and he just leaves!
What type of person are you? Are you a hero or do you
shy away from conflict?
I’m no hero, that’s for sure, but
let me tell you I didn’t shy away from that dude. We had words.
Do you have anyone close to you, any family or friends of
interest?
I’m lucky cause I have a lot of
friends and my family is awesome. But
when I was on that train, I met a kid my age. He seemed really cool but his
story was awful. It was weird that I
have money in my pockets most days and I didn’t that day. I would have liked to have been able to give
him some. I can’t get him out of my
mind, and I wonder how things turned out for him.
What initially spurred your actions in this story.
Obviously it had to start somewhere for you, give us an idea of where
that starting point is and where it all started.
Well I had heard stories of bizarre
things happening in old lady Wickware’s history classes, like other kids being
sent back in time, but come on, who would believe that? Plus, nobody has
actually said it happened to them, out loud anyway. I know first hand now and believe me, except
for you, I’m not talking either.
Tell us where we can read more about you? (The book(s)
they are featured in)
Riches to Rags, Book 5 of the
Wickware Sagas
Excerpt from Riches to Rags
“Daddy,
we don’t want to go with them. We want to stay with you.” His lips
were
quivering and his eyes filled with tears.
The
man stood. “I done told you, since your mama died I can’t care for you.
Now,
you will do what I tell you.” He turned to walk away but the boy grabbed his
arm.
“Daddy…”
The man shoved the little boy, making him fall, landing hard on the
cement.
Both boy and baby were now crying and Dylan noticed not one person
stopped
to help.
“Hey,”
Dylan yelled, “maybe you need to man up and go talk to the lady
yourself.
It takes a really brave man to push a little boy around.” Dylan’s face was
purple
with anger.
“This
ain’t none of your concern, kid,” the man yelled over his shoulder as he
practically
ran through the door, escaping his kids screams.
“You
can’t leave them here, you gutless wonder!” Dylan yelled, but their father was
long gone. “People can’t just throw their kids away,” he muttered, picking up
the
screaming baby, afraid she would get stepped on.
“It
happens all the time.”
Dylan
turned to see a boy, a few years older than himself, leaning against the
wall.
He was dressed in dirty long pants and a shirt that seemed to have more holes
than material.
Author: Penny Estelle
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for the older group. In April I have a
historical romance coming out, Revenge,
the Cowboy Way
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