Hi-Tech Blues (Joshua)

Hi-Tech Blues is the first short story in a series of 9 character driven dramas, written by a budding author of contemporary short fiction, C.R. Stevens. Enjoy the experiences and challenges of his protagonist Joshua Turner.

Joshua Turner - Could never be called uneducated, uncultured, unaffiliated, or unseemly. Still, even the most sophisticated man might not be able to erase his roots entirely; not that he hadn’t taken all the right steps. He was an engineering graduate, employed in corporate middle management, living in an upscale apartment in San Francisco where simply telling people his address was enough. He knew everything there was to know about the best wines, the subtleties of gourmet coffee, the most stylish cuts in clothing, and the dating etiquette that would guarantee him the company of a beautiful classy woman.
This was the life he’d always intended to lead. He felt certain of his superiority and very prepared to remain aloof from his Louisiana family he loved and considered stuck in mediocrity. He had a feeling that he had indeed “arrived” in life. But, as if attached to a rubber-band, the feeling that he had truly arrived is sub-planted by a new twinge of uncertainty in his life. He returns home with something to conceal as he walks in old and familiar shoes.