This is a short story of around 12300 words. Also, while gay relationships are implied, there is no on-screen sex. It asks some tough questions and leaves it to the reader to answer them. While The Man by the Lake is set in the world of my satirical short story collection Just Don't Mess With Us: Family Matters, this story is much darker and hardly humorous. While trying to deal with growing up gay and looking for romance, the institution of slavery begins to intrude uncomfortably in his life. The Spencers, as they call themselves, are very protective of their little family and will go to almost any lengths to keep it safe.īut will that be enough when one of them is suspected of being a murderer? Andrew Ashton grows up in a world very similar to ours, but where slavery has been reintroduced. Hugh Howey launched the idea on Kboards, a forum for Kindl. This anthology aims to be a showcase of recent indie writing. They live together in a polyamorous relationship somewhere in a quiet suburb. Read 'Stories on the Go - 101 very short stories by 101 authors' by Hugh Howey available from Rakuten Kobo. In fact the records are doctored and the four guys are unrelated to each other. Or that is what the world thinks it knows. We all have something in our past we want to hide, but some of us have darker secrets than most.Īfter the death of their parents, Mark, the oldest of the Spencer siblings, has taken his younger brothers under his wing.
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