Why two of the Walden children had ultimately been cut adrift while the other four remained part of the family made no sense at all.įive years later, Pauline visits Thomas on the morning of his release but is shocked to learn that for the first time a family member had come to visit him the day before. The third child, Chloe, had been put up for adoption. Stranger still, Pauline’s research revealed the Waldens had five additional children, and Thomas wasn’t even the strangest story among them. The Waldens were mysteriously dismissive: they refused to discuss Thomas and had even sent him into foster care. In her first interview with him, he’d told her “My family can’t help me,” and he was right. (Story #6 of 11)Ī BRIEF PLOT SUMMARY (with spoilers!): As a child psychologist for the police, Pauline’s toughest case is Thomas Walden, a 12-year-old boy who had killed a school bully. Here’s the link:Īnd here’s what he said about “Seed.” THE NEW: “Seed”ĪPPEARANCE: Cemetery Dance #74/75: October, 2016. “Seed” was published in Cemetery Dance’s special Joe Hill double issue, and then ‘exhumed’ by K. Hopefully my letter grade on my newer stories would be the same! My writing has evolved a fair bit since then. But I’ve had the recent pleasure of actually being ‘graded’ on a story! What is very strange about it is this was the third short story I ever wrote. So often a story gets published in an anthology and maybe a few reviews come in and maybe your story is mentioned in a review…and that’s it.
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