Childhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781733066815)

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 didn't feel better. What was missing?

Childhood is the novelette prequel to Fatherhood, a full-length novel about abortion from the father's point of view.