SHANTYBOAT: AMERICAN DYSTOPIA by Carl Parsons
In an America ruined by one party totalitarian rule and the loss of personal freedoms and states’ rights, homeless vagrants haunt the violent streets. Two of them, Dale and Rodney, both abandoned by their wives and children, decide to remedy their homelessness by building a shantyboat, despite having witnessed a brutal attack on a shantyboat family. In the process of building their shantyboat, however, they resort to theft and murder. Then they encounter Delia, an Athena-like woman, who shows them a better way to combat the dystopia into which they have fallen—a way in which they can all revive their fortunes, their lives, and their dignity. Read Shantyboat, a dystopian thriller by the author of Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics—both available from Wordwooze Publishing.
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With a background in both the sciences and humanities, Carl Parsons served for 22 years in various management positions for TRW Automotive, including plant manager. Upon his retirement in 2012, however, he returned to the humanities as an instructor in English for Walter State Community College in Sevierville, Tennessee, and as a writer and editor of literary fiction. He has published a total of eleven short stories with The Broadkill Review, The Raven Review, Foundling House, Scars Publications, and Spillwords Press and poetry with Literary Yard and Plum Tree Tavern. He also contributes essays on native plants to Hey, Smokies on-line travel magazine and writes monthly author biographies and discussion questions for the Classics Book Club of Sevier County. He is a member of West Virginia Writers Inc. His publishing awards include Contributor of the Year (2023) from Spillwords Press for Locust Hill and Literary Titan Book Award (July 2023) for Trios.