"One Son Resists"

My short story "One Son Resists" has just been published online by Green Lantern Press. This is the same story I read recently at The Parlor Emerging Writer's Festival; Green Lantern runs The Parlor, so it seemed natural to have the story appear in text at Green Lantern's site. My very special thanks to editor Nick Sarno.

I wrote the first draft of this story several years ago, as part of a contest at Ron Slattery's found-photo site Bighappyfunhouse. After it failed to win there, I shopped it around to a few venues, including featherproof, whose Jonathan Messinger was kind enough to provide some great suggestions for improving the story, after which I expanded and refined the narrative and ended up with a much better piece than before. Thanks to Ron and Jonathan for the inspiration and editorial boost, as well as to Todd Dills for his helpful suggestions of Depression-era East Coast summer resorts. Call it shameless name-dropping if you like, but I truly couldn't have done it without them.