Excerpt from Manuscript– Dwight #1

This is part of an extension of a project I’ve been working on for about two years. The original manuscript was novella length and was written in third-person, my latest cut of the project is written in first person, from the point-of-view of a mentally disabled man whose murder of a 16-year-old girl has explosive consequences. It’s probably the most fucked up thing I’ve ever written.I’d describe it as what would happen if “Flowers for Algernon” and “Psycho” had a love child. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of controversial subject matter in the manuscript, including racism, homophobia, pedophilia, domestic violence, and incest. This excerpt includes some of these elements, it’s not for the easily offended.– Continue reading “Excerpt from Manuscript– Dwight #1”