Catch the Wind

While his mom finalized the divorce using a gas station payphone in the middle of nowhere Texas, Keaton met a girl. At least, that's how she appeared at first. Every year since then, she'd return as someone new, someone exciting, something that would disappear as quickly as she arrived. Now, on the cusp of his eighteenth birthday, Keaton has developed an obsession that rivals that of the mad captain Ahab. Despite his friends, family, and future on the line, Keaton will stop at nothing until he's answered the question that's grown like a wild weed in his mind; is it possible to catch a unicorn?

(Paragraphs 1 and 20 were written and provided by Owl Canyon Press as a prompt to their 2019 short story contest.)