GHOST DETECTORS Rock & Roll BY DOTTI ENDERLE ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD MCWILLIAM
The King of Rock Malcolm yelled I’m terrible at this No matter how fast his fingers slid up and down on the neck of the plastic guitar he just couldn’t keep up with the blaring rock song Whose stupid idea was it to give him a Rock Like a Star video game for his birthday anyway Oh yeah his dad’s The guy loved that old geezer music His best friend Dandy’s fingers flew over the frets of his red guitar His score 4
was three times higher than Malcolm’s Dandy really knew how to rock Malcolm sighed I give up He set his blue guitar down and plopped onto the couch Dandy still stood legs slightly apart twanging along with the video game He chewed his tongue as he concentrated And he barely blinked his eyes His score rolled higher and higher and higher With a huge blast the song finally ended Dandy held his arms up in a victory V I am the King of Rock Wow Malcolm couldn’t believe it Dandy had scored over 95,000 points Far better than the lousy 20,000 he’d scored You’re really good at this What can I say Dandy wiggled his fingers in front of his face I’ve got the magic touch 5
