Challenger: A Short Story

by Matt Debenham

New short fiction! It's 1986 and 16-year-old Miles LaPine has a new body, a new girlfriend, and a new resistance to roleplaying games. But when his 14-year-old girlfriend takes him up to the woods to smoke pot for the first time, his inner loser comes a-calling. And then there’s that inexplicable object stuck in the tree…."Challenger" is the latest short fiction release from Matt Debenham, author of the prize-winning collection THE BOOK OF RIGHT AND WRONG (2010 OSU Press) and the Kindle story "The Advocate."

17 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2013

About the author

Matt Debenham is the author of the fiction collection The Book of Right and Wrong, which won the 2009 Ohio State University Press Prize for Fiction, and was published by OSU Press in 2010. His work has appeared in The Battered Suitcase, Roanoke Review, The Pinch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Dogwood, and elsewhere. The recipient of an arts fellowship from the state of Connecticut, he lives in Westport, CT with his family. His wife, Caissie St.Onge, is the author of Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever. (Random House, 2011)