"The Card" - New Release - A wee tale...

Tomorrow, MLR will issue several Father's Day releases, including my short, "The Card." Comprised of a little over six-thousand words, the story takes place in Denver during the mid-60s. The essence of the story is, I think, captured best by the blurb:

"The dynamic between fathers and sons is complex, most often least understood by the players themselves. But is it the father who does not know his son, or is it the son who does not know his father?

"The discovery of a Father's Day card in a box--long ago shoved into a dark corner in a cellar--provides a revelation to a son, a gay son that shatters all previous conclusions about his father. Set in Denver, the ravages of a massive flood, and the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl, provide the background for a son's coming of age, and a father's eerie ability to "...read the hunch...," that is essential to his prowess as a cop."