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Letters to Trotsky (A Short Story) (Kindle Single)

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This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.Thomas Gilchrist was raised on revolution. So when, at age eleven, he decides to begin writing letters describing the details of his parents’ secret communist meetings, he naturally addresses them to exiled Marxist leader Leon Trotsky.Years of increasingly exaggerated letters unexpectedly lead to Trotsky showing up in Thomas’s rural Canadian town, ready for a communist takeover, and no one is prepared. As Trotsky’s radical efforts intensify, so do his more private pursuits, and young Thomas is forced to confront the idolization of his political hero, who may just turn out to be more womanizer than revolutionary.Letters to Trotsky is a comic reimagining of history that asks the question, “What if Leon Trotsky had fled to small-town British Columbia instead of Mexico City in 1936?”

Pages: 45

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Day One

Release: September 27, 2017

Letters to Trotsky (A Short Story) (Kindle Single)

0/5 ( ratings)

This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.Thomas Gilchrist was raised on revolution. So when, at age eleven, he decides to begin writing letters describing the details of his parents’ secret communist meetings, he naturally addresses them to exiled Marxist leader Leon Trotsky.Years of increasingly exaggerated letters unexpectedly lead to Trotsky showing up in Thomas’s rural Canadian town, ready for a communist takeover, and no one is prepared. As Trotsky’s radical efforts intensify, so do his more private pursuits, and young Thomas is forced to confront the idolization of his political hero, who may just turn out to be more womanizer than revolutionary.Letters to Trotsky is a comic reimagining of history that asks the question, “What if Leon Trotsky had fled to small-town British Columbia instead of Mexico City in 1936?”

Pages: 45

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Day One

Release: September 27, 2017

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