Truck
By Keith Hale
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Keith Hale explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving story. Chris has been in love with his best friend Jimmy since childhood. While Chris is at college, Jimmy is sent to prison. Now Jimmy is free once more and the two meet again. Chris, or "Topi," as Jimmy calls him, begins to understand that Jimmy is not the only one who has made mistakes. With eyes wide open, both men re-examine their friendship.
Keith Hale
Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5He got me. I knew it was a short story be for I read it, but once I started to read, I was into the moment with them.
It could have come on stronger, maybe, but it was sweet, Once it ended I was disappointed but In a good way.
Thank you for the moment,
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Truck - Keith Hale
Truck
A short story by
Keith Hale
© 2022 by Keith Hale
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
6 x 9
(15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
BISAC: Fiction / Literary /
BISAC: Fiction / Gay
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Truck
Chapter One
I never did like to know what a new day would bring.
Jimmy wrote that line to me from prison. He spent seventeen years behind bars for the armed robbery of a Pizza Inn where he once worked.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!
Stupid!
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!