What's Your Poison?

Once narrowly escaping a town gone mad, a man threatens a boy with his life to get to the truth about his missing son.

Rattlesnake by Michael Hebler is a flash fiction piece about a man named Theo, who is drunk and sitting across a fire from a young man who looks just like his missing son, in what appears to be the aftermath of an apocalyptic event...at least, that's how an inebriated Theo perceives ongoing events. The dialogue offers up a few clues as to what really happened, even though Theo is doing most of the talking.

Hebler does a pretty good job of contrasting actual events with Theo's accounting, proving to readers, the POV of the main character isn't always accurate or trustworthy.

As always,
AstraDaemon