COMING SOON
TRAIN WRECK IN A SMALL TOWN
Set in a small Kansas town in the 1950s, Train Wreck in a Small Town is the story of young Eddie Askins startling passage from being a bicycle riding, dirt-clod fighting child through a sexual awakening and understanding of violence that will forever change Eddie and his community.
A passenger train speeding through the town of Clinton, Kansas one lazy summer afternoon, kills the son of the town's only black citizen, triggering a series of events that culminates in violence. As the train wreck and events surrounding it come out, Eddie starts to see the world through new eyes; his father, the Sheriff, the town druggist and grocery clerks are no longer just folks that serve simple roles in the town, but are rather men with prejudices, fears and regrets who are capable of irrational and violent action.
As Clarence, Eddie's old black fishing buddy, and father of the train wreck victim, fights to bury his dead son in the town cemetery, all of Clinton's unspoken fears and regrets are revealed.
The first chapter of Train Wreck was published as a short story which won the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society first place in that genre. The story is now a 300 page book being edited.