A Kid On A Corner

The story of Mike Russell: Out on the corner, some people drive by and shout FREAK, others tell him to ROCK ON, MAN, and then there are some who sit at red lights and put up their windows and flick their locks.

The kids around Spring Hill call him the Caveman. The seniors at Springstead call him "Most Likely to Become a Superstar" in their yearbook superlatives.

His mother calls him Michael.

"He's a good boy," Shari Russell said last week.