Ali Camacho-Febles
MCKENZIE CASSIDY is a writer, journalist, marketer, and professor living in Fort Myers, Florida. His work has appeared in the anthology Walk Hand in Hand into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective, Flash Fiction Magazine, Florida Weekly, and in multiple newspapers throughout southwest Florida. He holds an MFA from Wilkes University and is a regular blogger for the Florida Writers Association. Here Lies a Father is his first novel. Learn more at mckenziecassidy.com.
HERE LIES A FATHER
HERE LIES A FATHER
•A NOVEL•
MCKENZIE CASSIDY
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Published by Akashic Books
©2021 Mckenzie Cassidy
ISBN: 978-1-61775-757-0
E-ISBN: 978-1-61775-871-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020936138
First printing
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Contents
Old man, look at my life
I’m a lot like you were.
—Neil Young, “Old Man”
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away againIt’s always been the same, same old storyFrom the moment I could talk I was ordered to listenNow there’s a way and I know that I have to go awayI