Mother's Tell All, Leaves Son on the Run

All fiction stems from factual events, and a mother in North Carolina's capital had a hard time stopping that stem from growing into a tree.  As an entrant in the National Tobacco Road Short Story Contest, she was tasked with creating an original story that did not exceed four thousand words. She had three months to come up with a story, but an original storyline never emerged. As months dwindled to weeks she decided to write about the most interesting word of mouth story she had heard all year. Believing the contest judges would dismiss it as contemporary fiction, she wrote about her son and his friend's involvement in a bank robbery; not even going through the trouble of changing their names. 

 

A traveling judge read her entry and thought it sounded eerily familiar to a recent crime in his hometown. Without telling anyone of his hunch, he notified the authorities. Now the Tobacco Road Short Story Contest winner is under constant surveillance and her son is believed to be hiding out in South America.

 

Checkout the book Generational Heist that inspired this spoof (This spoof is not a part of the book's storyline)