The Lost Son

by Linda Cracknell

Linda Cracknell has taught English in Zanzibar, worked for the environmental charity WWF and was writer-in-residence at Hugh MacDiarmid's last home near Biggar.

Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and journals, been broadcast on BBC Radio and collected in Life Drawing (2000).

Her collection The Searching Glance was published in 2008 by Salt.

'The Lost Son' was commissioned exclusively for the Story website.

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