The Seduction of Quentin (or Pa's Cash Crop)

SHORT STORY - 4300 words - Quentin tells the story in his vernacular of growing up in Crawford County Arkansas and of his Pa's desperate gamble to grow strawberries on a failed piece of land; of Reba Truitt, a sultry and aggressive neighbor woman with designs on his virginity; and lastly of a tornado, which changes his world and changes him forever.