Walking Small – Preview

June 30, 2007 on 12:49 pm | In Words | No Comments

I am currently working on a short first-person fiction narrative called Walking Small. Check the summary—

Being a cripple isn’t easy. Being a closet cripple is even harder. Ever since I was born, my feet never grew a single shoe size. My whole life was spent in an awkward solitude. Obsessed with athletics, but never being able to participate in them, I became a man of a unique trade— painting glorified pictures of popular sports celebrities. With a high rent and many low paying jobs, I swiftly became desperate and negative about life altogether. This story is about one fateful day when my perspective on everything changed so dramatically that Chapter Two became pointless to write.

This will be the first of many short stories to make their way into HomCon this summer. Stay tuned!

-Chris