" i don't want to spend the rest of my days keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say. . . " • • • ABERDEEN, 1986. In a bygone era where MTV rules the air and soundwaves alike--and sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll dominate adolescent bedrooms--high school sophomore Sage Kinsley doesn't just feel bizarre; he feels...
" a tear in the membrane allows the voices in. . . " • • LOS ANGELES, 2020. An unexpected pandemic has sent the world as we know it into a major lockdown; luckily for the bored and the restless, streamers and podcasts have taken over the world and all its algorithms with it. True crime in particular is a hit, and...
" an awesome wave, that rushes skin and widens in blooded veins. . . " • • • ABERDEEN, 2003. "Through thick and thin," were lackluster words to describe the friendship between thirteen-year-old Andrew "Andy" Breher and fourteen-year-old Drew Dreyfuss--two boys living on opposite sides of a social spectrum yet bou...
" the rain had a sound it flattened its face on the window pane. . . " • • • FRESNO, CA., 2024. Sex trafficking within the central valley has reached its peak, and over two thousand missing children go unaccounted for each year. Ghettos refuse to speak for themselves, as do all the connections the FPD has maintai...
" your days are numbered with creations in your pocket... " • • • LA COUNTY, 2007. Punk is dead; hip-hop has had its glory days; rhythm and blues made its run and fell along the way. When six major record labels come to the conclusion that industry plants are out‐-and independent artists are in--they decide to jo...
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" dream on, dear little child in the sky, stars are still fading away. . . " • • • UNITED STATES, 2016. While on the run and fearing for his life, Kasner Kapersky, an infamous child abductor, details the brutal history of his abundant crimes and his insatiable appetite for bloodshed. As his rival--a tenacious det...
" a crowd has gathered in black and white arms entwined, the chosen few. . . " " • • • IN WHICH seasonal addict ollie varga spends his days locked in a routine of unrelenting pain, poetry, and a pursuit of happiness with fellow rehab boy, kurt cobain. an abundant nirvana au based on lyrics by u2. • • • " and we c...
" i have stood here before inside the pouring rain with the world turning circles running 'round my brain. . . " • • • ABERDEEN, 2017. Siblings Remy and Otis Falkner are the very epitome of an inseparable bond, going beyond the standard definition of what it means to be one's keeper. That is, until an astounding...
" there's nothing left alive but a pair of glassy eyes. . . " • • • 1994, PORTLAND, OR. "Damned are the days of Carpe Diem!" is the personal life motto of Curtis Carpenter, a used car salesman whose only aspirations in life have been to foster and drown in a perdurable drug habit. That is, until he meets Shelly;...
" i've given everything i need i've given everything i own. . . " • • • LOS ANGELES, 2013. The discovery of an obscure, depraved shock site prompts a popular online streamer to investigate its content for views. But the harder he falls into a rabbithole containing evidence of inhumane true crime, the quicker he g...
" a chance for calm, a hope for freedom outlet from my cold solitary kingdom. . . " • • IN WHICH five college friends, bound by silenced fragments of their childhood, endure the agonies and ecstacies accompanying their humanity over the course of nearly three decades. an abundant original story based on lyric...
" i'm not pessimistic i believe in miracles. . . " • • • IN WHICH gerald "gerry" henson compromises his life as a church choir boy to be the spiritual anchor that jude st. francis needs in both a friend and a foe. an abundant "a little life" au based on lyrics by ampop. • • • " all that i wish for seems to be in...
" see the fire is sweepin' our very street today. . . " • • • 1977, TENNESSEE. Since the age of thirteen, Knoxville native Sunny Travis has been the man of the house. His closest encounters with freedom are limited to working late nights at a local diner and participating in barstool crap game...
" paint the streets in white death is the standard breach for a complex prize. . . " • • • SAN BERNARDINO, 2010. Tensions between the dean of a Catholic university and the vice president of an underfunded environmentalist club spark the age-old debate of power versus pacifism. But not everyone's ...
" did you get enough love, my little dove why do you cry . . . ? " • • • [ TRANSLATION: My Vanishing Hourglass ] SPOKANE, 1994. Unlike any other seventeen-year-old his age, Finney Gardner has night terrors. But the visions that plague him are not from lifelong phobias. Instead, he dreams of ch...
" dream on, dear little child in the sky, stars are still fading away. . . " • • • UNITED STATES, 2016. While on the run and fearing for his life, an infamous child abductor details the inception of his abundant killings and his insatiable appetite for crime to a tenacious detective. But as his ...
" dogs lead the chase as you are bleeding, they run to hunt you down. . . " • • • SALINO, CA., 2029. Amid an all-American trip down to the dry hills and empty rural pastures of California's Central Valley, siblings Charlie and Reese Wilder find themselves entranced by the vast vacancies of Mokita ...
" tell me, how do you know they can't hear us coming? it's easy for me, i got a headstart running away. . . " • • • SPOKANE, 2009. Senior year at Fordham High School should equate to the same experiences of any other American class of '09. When a particular pair of teen boys begin to express violen...
" all the pigs are all lined up I give you all that you want. . . " • • • 1979, MONTEREY BAY. With the death of her father, eighteen-year-old Beck Zsidłavwicz signs up for the annual Feast─a series of deadly, grueling contests in which fifty paired participants do not fight but devour to the d...
" will you ever preserve. . . ? will you ever exhume. . . ? " • • • SALINO, CA., 2006. Unregulated curfews and bodies found in harsh terrain make up only a select number of problems plaguing an insignificant Central Valley town. When an amateur teen filmmaker decides to explore the roots...
" I can feel their eyes are watching in case I lose myself again. . . " • • • 2013, LOS ANGELES. The discovery of a brutal pay-to-stream shock site manages to capture the attention of both local authorities and an obscure streamer. When cryptic messages begin to haunt him, as well as the poten...
"people cry and people moan, look for a dry place to call their home. . ." • • • IN WHICH chris cambria's journals fall into the hands of kurt cobain after a day spent at the wishkah, leaving him to dissect the remains of a seemingly perished memory. a short high school au based on lyrics by meat puppets. • • • "...
" these were never tales of fiction, but rather the tales of my testimony. the small words only God can hear remnants of days only God can see . . . "
‟ while the world was flying by, i haven't been gone very long. . . "
❝ it's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder. . . ❞ • • • IN WHICH three girls, in the span of almost three decades, endure love and loss through the lens of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. OR... the one where free-spirited punk molly baker, eager pro skater...
━━ in which two aloof rockers with an endearing love for each other try to fight against the tides that desperately want them separated. [ britt walford ]
