The Graduation Party (Fiction)

When Carolyn's stepson Clifton gets into college, she and his dad, Paul, throw a party. But it's not all fun and games as the memory of Clifton's mother comes back to haunt them.

By Shane Plassenthal,

Clifton is going away. Paul is thrilled. He finds every excuse to talk about it to anyone who listen. Just yesterday when we are the Stop and Save getting food for this party we bumped into Shawn and Steve O’Connor, the gay couple Paul worked with when he was at the architectural firm in Cleveland. He didn’t even ask how they were d…