He took out his phone and clicked on the bookmarked story Rabbit in Red that he and Jaime had discovered a few weeks ago. Since he didn’t have a car of his own, he waited for the school bus. She smacked her lips, mumbling the unintelligible nonsense of a dream. Bill took her arm and wrapped it around her chest. Drool drizzled out of her mouth, and one arm dangled to the floor. He adjusted the blanket around her and tucked a pillow more firmly underneath her head. Bill groaned at the sight of the empty vodka bottle on the coffee table, but he bent over and kissed her as he always did, even if she never realized it or felt it only in a dream.

His primary contact with his mom took place in these moments, saying good-bye to a passed-out shell of a human.

Chapter Oneīill Wise hunted the rabbit in red, and his best friend Jaime followed.īill found his mother slumbering on the couch, like he did every morning. Youth’s ravenous appetites for everything-sleep, food, sex, anger-are justified without shame or guilt. We old people adore our pasts for many reasons, but the biggest reason is primal in nature. There’s something infectious about youth. He's perfected a karate move that destroys writer's block.RABBIT IN RED is his first published novel. He's been to Japan twice, once for a college study abroad semester, and he constantly dreams of exploring new worlds.That's another reason why he writes: the worlds he wants to see come alive in his imagination and on paper.He also runs a martial arts program at his college and has earned a 4th degree black belt in karate. On a perfect day, he spends a couple of hours writing and a couple of hours outdoors biking or hiking.He wishes he could travel more and still has that dream of seeing the entire world. He loves writing all sorts of stories, from horror to coming-of-age, from poetry to novels. A decade of that was spent teaching high school English, and now he's a college professor of communication.Of course he loves books, so much that as a child, he'd fake sick so that he could stay up all night to finish whatever he was reading. He's been a full-time educator since 2001. Joe loves teaching, reading, writing, fitness, and traveling.

Rabbit In Red by Joe Chianakas