The Power Plant

A Kindle Short Read

The Power Plant

By Award Winning Author Charles W. Harvey

A young man’s coming of age story in the 80’s. Innocent and sweet with menacing undertones. In the Power Plant our protagonist works in his University’s Power Plant typing and running errands. He’s nineteen and trying to navigate his way through his yearning for men at the plant while at the same time feeling he should be with women.
What choices did you make at nineteen? What choices are you making now?

Includes an excerpt from the upcoming novel Promise Goodday

Harvey's work has appeared in Story Magazine, The James White Review, Shade, Soulfires and other fine anthologies. A great work is kept shared and read over and over for your enjoyment.

An Excerpt:

Bells ring in my head. It’s my Mother phoning the Power Plant late into the night, to inquire why haven’t I come home. I know what time the night Operator is supposed to make his rounds to read the meters. But he will sleep half the night under the narcotic hum of the big chillers and fudge the numbers on the meter sheets. He’ll eat his lunch in the control room up front by the big gaping door of the plant. He’ll piss through the grate rather than come toward the tool room to go to the toilet. There’s a side door that’s always unlocked because the lock’s broken. It’s a good way for someone to get into the power plant unnoticed and into the tool room if they have a key, like Hawkins has a key. I know Hawkins knows these things too. Because now he’s looking at me and the ropes and pulleys hanging from the ceiling. He breathes hard and his hand digs deeper between his legs. He moves the door back and forth.