Truck

By Keith Hale

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.

 

Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Watersgreen House
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201900083

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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© 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! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

How many stupid things can you spot in that one sentence?

I had known him almost my whole life. Well, since I was twelve and he was nine. We used to be a team in four-square at the little private school we attended.