Carcass of the caterpillar

CARCASS OF THE CATERPILLARTo climb the water tower, to dive off the bridge into the Santeelah River, Chad McClain is unrivaled in his tough country-boy antics. Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Chad at eighteen is coming to grips with the fact that perhaps his future will not include college. That his horizons will not be stretching any farther than the same small-town streets and hayfields that he has been around his entire life. This sameness is met with the extraordinary revelation that Chad, the popular ringleader of high school chaos and partying, is gay.With complicated issues at home centered around the demonic assaults byhis fist-wielding father, Chad strives to protect his younger brother.Despite social constraints that dominate life in the small farming community, Chad is able to find a measure of happiness and love in his involvement with a local boy, Tim.His story is an evolution as unique as the creases in the wings of an emerging butterfly and as colorful as the beauty of its velvety soft filaments, as it leaves the cocoon of death. Trying to understand his sexualorientation, gain acceptance from his family, support from his friends, Chad travels down this turbulent road with the gait of a wounded soldier back to fight in the face of overwhelming odds.