"The Current" is a tale of adolescent suppression on the beautiful man-made island of Cape Cod. After years of trying to forget, Alec Piper returns to his family's old vacation spot in order to make peace with the loss of his sister who drowned in the ocean before his very eyes. As Alec reconnects with year-rounders and begins to examine the culture of Cape Cod more closely, he realizes that the quaint, old fishing land has a dark, frightful underbelly. In the end, Alec has to make a choice between a life of fast-paced stress and noise, or a life of isolated serenity among the currents.
Having been raised on the Cape, myself, I wrote this story to expose what the tourists don't see. Without the summer sun, the majestic sail boats, and the warm mellow sand dunes, Cape Cod can be a prison for those under the age of 60.
This piece can be found in the March 2011 edition of Deadman's Tome. http://deadmanstome.com/DT032011special.pdf
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