Crossin' the Line
by Phil Bosakowski

THE STORY: Kara, a small-town girl with an impeccable reputation and a brilliant future in prospect, takes a summer joy ride with Hayden, her brother's best friend.

But Hayden loses control of the car, Kara is fatally injured, and beer cans are found in the car.

Distraught, and convinced that his sister's reputation is being smeared, her brother, Mitch, demands vengeance from a legal system he's flaunted all his life.

When Hayden's lawyer negotiates a better sentence for him than Mitch deems proper, he loses control.

After an angry confrontation with the lawyer, Mitch stumbles to Hayden's apartment and, in a drunken rage, shoots Hayden dead—thereby compounding the series of tragic events which, ironically, were set in motion when Kara apparently caused her own death by grabbing the steering wheel of the speeding car.