Chris Helvey

Chris Helvey is an award winning short-story writer, a poet, and a novelist. The author of more than a dozen novels and multiple short-story collections, his latest novel, Bayou, was recently released by Wings ePress, and is available in both paperback and e-book formats on Amazon. A founding member of the Bluegrass Writers Coalition, Chris is also editor-in-chief and publisher of Trajectory Journal.

Bayou

Without home, work, or a family, Ray is struggling to survive the Great Depression. One day, a chance meeting with a fellow hobo named Johnny changes the trajectory of his journey. Teaming up, Ray and Johnny start robbing banks, dodging the law, and planning for their future. Ray meets and falls in love with a woman who joins their gang and a happy life seems only a matter of time for him. Then a bank robbery goes horribly wrong, and Ray’s life careens down a path he never imagined, wanted, and may not survive.