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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .
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The following story is true- except for the parts I totally made up. The names have been changed to protect the people I loved and to protect me from the people I hated. . . .
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Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception. Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .
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Daron thought life would get easier after he got away from his parents’ house in New Jersey, thanks to a scholarship to music school in New England. But life is tough when there isn’t enough money to actually live on, you’re underage, and you don’t know where to turn. And is it the best thing that ever happened to you, . . .
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Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
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The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality. It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .
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With money to burn and time to spend, Sol Mann embarks on a journey through Costa Rica that would change him in a fundamental way. Where does he get his money? And what is he running from? . . . We don’t really know. But that doesn’t matter when your days are filled with cheap weed, good rum, and great women. . . .
Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present. The story . . .
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Chris is spending the summer with his “cool uncle” in Tarrant due to his parents’ marital difficulties. A timeless, modern-day coming-of-age story, with humor. . . .
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Detention (or My Detention) is a collection of interconnected stories, all of which tie into the life of its overarching child protagonist, Grant, as he creates this fiction to deal with his traumatic past. Various narrators and voices let Detention cross between genres and explore many different aspects of Grant’s young mind. How each story relates is often left up . . .
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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .
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A young professional in Chicago discovers the nebulous power of style, which subsequently threatens to consume him as he propels himself towards the American Dream. . . .
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College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, having adventures and establishing their lives. It was especially true for Randy Clark and his three girl friends. They are very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world? . . .
It is often easy for one writer to recognize when a fellow writer has tried too hard in his fiction. This is when prose is no longer hot lightning from head to hand, but something decidedly more difficult and less inspired: ie, the careful task of forming whole words, perfect words, in the absence of creative heat. All of us [more . . .]
As of writing, I’m about eight chapters into "Daron’s Guitar Chronicles" and I am enjoying it, though I’ve not been quite so consumed by it as some previous reviewers.
The story is set in the mid 80s, and it follows the misadventures of Daron, a young man with who’s trapped in [more . . .]