Title: The Good Luck of Right Now
Author: Matthew Quick
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Number of Pages: 304
Rating: A-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: 3 NBs of Julian Drew
Author: James M. Deem
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 208
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
Author(s): Harold Schechter, Eric Powell
Illustrator: Eric Powell
Genre: Non-Fiction Graphic Novel/ True Crime
Number of Pages: 224
Rating: A-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Bad Day for the Cut
Director: Chris Baugh
Actor(s): Nigel O’Neill, Jozef Pawlowski
Genre: Crime Thriller
Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Note: This story is not fantasy/horror. It’s another realistic vignette following the childhood experiences of Warren Cowell, a character I wrote who’s 34 in the main manuscript but 13 in this story. This is set on Halloween (because I’m just feeling out-of-season) and portrays an oddball kid in good ol’ dysfunctional suburbia, circa 1997. There is some non-PC language which is meant for the purpose of realism and doesn’t reflect the feelings of the writer.
More recent stories about this character- Toxicity, With Families Like These…
Title: The Trouble in Me
Author: Jack Gantos
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 224
Rating: D
Recommended?: No
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Title: They Came Like Swallows
Author: William Maxwell
Number of Pages: 174
Genre: Classic Fiction
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Psycho
Author: Robert Bloch
Number of Pages: 175
Genre: Psychological Horror
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
A conversation between a closeted gay alcoholic and his well-meaning mother, who he visits in the retirement home while intoxicated.–
A short story from the point of view of Warren (the main character from my second manuscript, ‘Fantastic Feats of Self-Destruction’)’s older sister, Hannah. In this story Hannah looks back on her childhood growing up in the shadow of her incisively intelligent gay brother and her mother’s preferential treatment towards him. It also portrays the Hannah and her mother Hazel’s sense of homophobic denial over Warren’s sexuality.
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