Podcast #4, the short story "The Stonecutter", by William H. Coles

An adolescent boy, the only son of an illiterate gravestone cutter, falls in love with one of his father’s beautiful clients and during his fatuous, one-sided affair he finds admiration and love for a father he’s silently scorned and dishonored for as long as he can remember.

Finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition.
Finalist, (top six) Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award.

This story and thirty-two others are available online free for listening or reading, and download: https://www.storyinliteraryfiction.com/stories-novels

An Illustrated print version is available: Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles; 2000-2016

Music: “How Come You Do Me Like You Do?”