This reminds me some of a story I read in an old 1990s magazine from Kewanee, Illinois, "Later Will Always Be Later." The magazine is called Plots. I had posted a story up from that magazine on my website a long time ago. It was done by an anomonous writer, but this one is a good write either way -- creatively done.
WEIRD RHODY is a short story collection featuring five strange tales all set in Rhode Island and written by five Rhode Island authors. The anthology is a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, the Ocean State's famed author of pulp horror.
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h