The Silence: A Short Story

There's no place like home. Except when home really sucks – then there's just no place.
His mom's boyfriends are never nice, but after the newest one explodes, hurting him, ten-year-old Neilson flees home.
With nowhere else to go, he finds himself on the porch of an abandoned house.
But the thing is, the house is no longer abandoned and the mysterious stranger staying there has a secret.

Follow the memories back to 1978 in this short story of a boy struggling to find his place in the world.