The Jekyll Doctor and the Secret He Could Not Hyde

By Saxon Childress

In this modern day short story, a minister's widow takes the shocking news of her daughter's pregnancy hard. But it will be the past that keeps her entrapped - or will it be a shared future with her daughter, the fiance, and the unborn child? Fulfilling a popular quote from Oedipus Rex: "Time, which sees all things, has found you out," Childress tackles a taboo subject - and the consequences of decisions made in the moment of passion and regret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Saxon Childress
• Release date: Jan 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370969302

Saxon Childress

I am a Georgia author, with a background in education and sales. I enjoy conspiracy theories and historical research.

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The Jekyll Doctor and the Secret He Could Not Hyde

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. 

― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

A Short Story

By Saxon Childress

Tarsus Literary

Dedication:

To William Faulkner, Stephen King, and Sylvia Plath,

This is what happens to English majors.

No, I did not drink shoe polish when I wrote this story.

Oh, Mother, you will like him! Give him a chance, Brianna tugged at her mother’s arm, placing the good china on the table for dinner, an occasion that was now rare. Brianna’s father had died when she was a high school junior and now she was finishing her graduate degree, having transferred out of state to the University of Georgia. Thanksgiving was just days away and Brianna had flown in for the break, to be followed after by her lover. Boyfriend just did not seem appropriate, but he was due to arrive soon, having flown up