This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.
Damien Stewart Wilson was only a teenager when he was shot dead outside his home in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s a tragedy, and far from the first one for his poverty-stricken family.
And so the investigation into Damien’s life, and the circumstances of its brutal end, begins. Through a sympathetic glimpse into the lives of a vulnerable southern family, An Incomplete Obituary for Damien Stewart Wilson reveals four generations’ struggle with society, God, and themselves. Ultimately, there is no cause or cure: our family’s history makes us who we are today—whether we like it or not.