Story Profile: “An Afternoon in Lake Park”
In this flash fiction story, a sullen, disinterested girl is compelled to chaperone an elderly retired lawyer around Lake Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As she pushes the man in his wheelchair, the ex-lawyer, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, blurts out a series of shocking revelations, but the girl, with her ear buds blasting music, isn’t paying attention. Is the lawyer confessing to his own crimes, or is something else going on here?
I first got the idea for “An Afternoon in Lake Park” when I was quite young, when I had soccer practices in Lake Park. I often thought that it was a beautiful place, but sometimes when my mind was elsewhere I wondered about hidden treasure being buried in the thick woods around the soccer fields. In adulthood, I took these childhood imagination memories and added a much darker twist to them.
“An Afternoon in Lake Park” can be found on Akashic Books’ “Mondays are Murder” blog.
–Chris Chan
Chris Chan’s first book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” was released on August 27thfrom MX Publishing, and is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there). It is also available in a Kindle edition.
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