Podcast #15, the short story “The Perennial Student”, by William H. Coles
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An insecure, uptight, assistant professor of English denies his suppressed attraction to a precociously arduous and passionate student in his evening noncredit creative writing course with twisted consequences that could deny his desire to be full professor. Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. Finalist, (top six) Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. This story ... Go To Episode
Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian, a famous wealthy football player. He is excited and afraid; he wants to recapture the love he knew with his parents before they died and become a doctor like his father. But in his new home...
Published 04/01/19