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THE SILENCE: A SHORT STORY
There’s no place like home. Except when home really sucks – then there’s just no place.
His mom’s boyfriends are never nice, but after the newest one explodes, abusing him, ten-year-old Neilson flees home.
With nowhere else to go, he finds himself on the porch of an abandoned house.
But the thing is, the house is no longer abandoned and the mysterious stranger staying there has a secret.
Follow the memories back to 1978 in this short story of a boy struggling to find his place in the world.
His mom’s boyfriends are never nice, but after the newest one explodes, abusing him, ten-year-old Neilson flees home.
With nowhere else to go, he finds himself on the porch of an abandoned house.
But the thing is, the house is no longer abandoned and the mysterious stranger staying there has a secret.
Follow the memories back to 1978 in this short story of a boy struggling to find his place in the world.
43 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 24, 2020
About the author
Margaret Chatwin
11 books62 followersI think I was a writer before I could even write. I can remember lying awake in my bed as a small child dreaming up characters and adventures for them to take. When I reached the age of thirteen, (which was a million years ago) my imagination could no loner be kept within the confines of my own head and I began to write them down. Many a summer I laid out in the back yard on the lawn chair with a pen and a note book. I’ve since graduated to a couch and a laptop, but I’m still writing.
My all time favorite genre to write is young adult. I’ve tried to grow up a few times and write adult novels, but I always find myself going back to my roots. YAY YA!
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My all time favorite genre to write is young adult. I’ve tried to grow up a few times and write adult novels, but I always find myself going back to my roots. YAY YA!
All of my books can be purchased at Amazon.com
And come hit “like” on my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Margar...
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June 3, 2020
Name’s a ‘The Silence’ but it’s
‘A Loud Message’
.
It is a very short story still it covers hell lot of emotions. Most typical part of a short story is to create characters within limited words and give them all sort of importance. Development of each character in this story has been done very well.
It’s a story of a boy named Neilson who’s more a child than an accomplished boy in true sense. Bashing he went through was the worst scene to read and imagine that brutality. This whole writing concentrated a lot on the child abuse and the ill-parenting issues. How a boy of merely 10 years old bore that much of harassment? Parents have to be more cautious about their every single step they take for how that single step could affect their child’s life.
Most disturbing thing is that such issues are increasing, and are spoiling the generations just because of the bad time that people had experienced as children. Such examples set, be repetitive in most of the cases when those children themselves become parents.
This story focused on one another important aspect of life we are seeing in our society. Even a socially bad person can be a very good appreciable ‘HUMAN’.
As in whole, for me its deserves 5.0/5.0
It is a very short story still it covers hell lot of emotions. Most typical part of a short story is to create characters within limited words and give them all sort of importance. Development of each character in this story has been done very well.
It’s a story of a boy named Neilson who’s more a child than an accomplished boy in true sense. Bashing he went through was the worst scene to read and imagine that brutality. This whole writing concentrated a lot on the child abuse and the ill-parenting issues. How a boy of merely 10 years old bore that much of harassment? Parents have to be more cautious about their every single step they take for how that single step could affect their child’s life.
Most disturbing thing is that such issues are increasing, and are spoiling the generations just because of the bad time that people had experienced as children. Such examples set, be repetitive in most of the cases when those children themselves become parents.
This story focused on one another important aspect of life we are seeing in our society. Even a socially bad person can be a very good appreciable ‘HUMAN’.
As in whole, for me its deserves 5.0/5.0
May 29, 2020
I received this short story in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!
Nielsen is a young boy who has suffered many blows at the hands of his mother’s various low life boyfriends, and this current model is a real douchebag. Nielson finds himself fleeing his home in search of a safe haven on a daily basis and comes to find a place that is usually abandoned occupied. He finds an unlikely friend in an unlikely place...a hero if you will. Or is he?
Short stories can be difficult. There is such little time to truly develop characters and get the reader invested. I have to say, I was invested. Great development of characters and I did not put the book down disappointed. This short story was well written. I would read more from this author. :)
Nielsen is a young boy who has suffered many blows at the hands of his mother’s various low life boyfriends, and this current model is a real douchebag. Nielson finds himself fleeing his home in search of a safe haven on a daily basis and comes to find a place that is usually abandoned occupied. He finds an unlikely friend in an unlikely place...a hero if you will. Or is he?
Short stories can be difficult. There is such little time to truly develop characters and get the reader invested. I have to say, I was invested. Great development of characters and I did not put the book down disappointed. This short story was well written. I would read more from this author. :)
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