Childhood

Katie lived a lonely childhood her after school time filled with responsibilities to her father and special needs brother. Her chores prevented her from experiencing the carefree life her peers including Joey her neighbor and secret crush lived. She began running to impress Joey then discovered track as a possible way out of the small town of Nortonville Tennessee. But as the promise of a college scholarship drew her closer to the escape she had dreamed about since childhood she wondered why she didnt feel better. What was missing?Childhood is the novelette prequel to Fatherhood a full-length novel about abortion from the fathers point of view.