Suspended is a novella length piece of e- literature that tells the story of a family crisis.
A popular thirteen year old boy is suspended from school after posting on social media an ill-advised and incendiary cartoon-- which involves the Principal of his Middle School. However, as the plot unfolds and the characters make their moves, the roles of victim and perpetrator blur to ambiguity and even reversal.
A flair-up of teenage impulsivity becomes a full-out catastrophe as the stakes get higher and boy's parents stumble from punishing their son to protecting him, dogged by doubt in their own judgement, stung by social shaming, and boxed in by fear of recrimination from the powers that be. The story progresses as an opinion survey, against the backdrop of zero tolerance policy faced by American youth in a society steered by the power structure.
A popular thirteen year old boy is suspended from school after posting on social media an ill-advised and incendiary cartoon-- which involves the Principal of his Middle School. However, as the plot unfolds and the characters make their moves, the roles of victim and perpetrator blur to ambiguity and even reversal.
A flair-up of teenage impulsivity becomes a full-out catastrophe as the stakes get higher and boy's parents stumble from punishing their son to protecting him, dogged by doubt in their own judgement, stung by social shaming, and boxed in by fear of recrimination from the powers that be. The story progresses as an opinion survey, against the backdrop of zero tolerance policy faced by American youth in a society steered by the power structure.