Unintended

Struggling with their own lost dreams, Marlene and Armand Dupuis hope their son, Army, can fulfill his goal of becoming a painter. But before Army goes off to art school, golden-haired Liesel Vandt appears in his life. She becomes the epicenter of an escalating crisis for the entire family. Lines blur between wrong and right and crazy and sane as all of their lives take directions they never intended. 

Dawn Ronco has loved to write since she first penciled words on green-lined penmanship paper in second grade. Her talent for it has driven her career in corporate communications and earned her several accolades for fiction over the years, most recently second place in the Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest. Her work has appeared in the Scarlet Leaf Review, On the Premises, and Currents. Learn about Dawn Ronco's short story anthology and follow her monthly "Snippets" on her website, dawnronco.com.