Cracked Teeth & Cigarettes
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They're too young to feel this old.
In the forgotten town of Graveton, five teenagers cling to each other like cigarette smoke-aimless, angry, and already halfway broken. Ash doesn't talk much, but their art says everything. Milo writes poetry he never shows. Roe lives between couches and alleyways. Jules has a voice like a blade and nowhere to put it. And Zeph? Zeph's been burning out for years.
Set in the grey, rain-slicked haze of the early 2000s, Cracked Teeth & Cigarettes is a raw, slow-burning coming-of-age about queer kids, bad habits, and the ghosts we carry when no one's watching.
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