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183 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
An adult Trey Franklin shares memories of his life as a young teen and summer of horror, but struggles to narrate the story, and you will see why.
It all begins with the arrival of his new best buddy Eddy Treemont who just moved in across the street......and boy is Eddy full of the devil! It's on their first nightly adventure to the creepy abandoned building that Trey and Eddy find themselves in deep sh*t with "Officer Maniac Mack" and his perverse ways of enforcing the law.
As their friendship grows, and this coming-of-age story evolves, I continued to be shocked chapter after chapter as the boys encounter danger, uncover horrific abuse and even face death.
And yes, as Edward Lorn warns, "graphic language and adult situations" are found here, but IMHO are outweighed by the addictive, well-drawn characters amidst an amazingly told story.
(Be sure to read Mr. Lorn's review for some interesting truth's revealed about this novel.)
When you live in the past, you live with regret. Hindsight is always 20/20 and all that. You have time to question yourself about what you did, ponder the outcome of your actions. You ask yourself, day in and day out, if you couldn't have done that one thing better. Experience alters reality. You cannot progress if you don't screw up every now and then. In turn, you live, you learn.
Nothing would ever be all right again. Nothing could ever be okay. Not anymore. The world had changed. It had become a dark place full of evil and monsters and terrible things. And the worst part was that I had no control over any of it.