Kyler Doss
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A would-be lover boy can't tell the new boy how much he likes him - it's just easier to be unhappy. Sam skulks across the sidewalks of this hush-hush town, where he also holds out on his best friend - not a hint of the secret. The new boy flits around somewhere out there and Sam feels lost, unable to come clean - unless your best friend is the one that you're supposed to tell this stuff to.
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A shy boy fears that he won't make a friend, but then he does, unless the other boy is only acting. The street theater game the kids are playing swallows up everything on the avenue, from what is real to what is not. Oz can only hope that the boy he likes is for real, or else love tells the biggest lie of all.
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If one boy in these stories finds another boy to love, that's a bonus - because it's not a guarantee. The boys already have to deal with the uneasy fate of life after high school, the uncharted route they didn't see coming. Love only adds to the freight in these 4 novellas: I'm Not From Here, Your Nihilistic Tea House, If by Chance We Meet, A Particular Friendship.
24) Hayride Tonite
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The hayride boys plot to steal a kiss - it's all a matter of who and who. The hayride churns its 6 mph course, but things happen fast for Zander, 13. He tries hard to learn the rules of kissing but the boys keep throwing unexpected things at him: sudden desires and secret feelings and, yes, those wrench-in-the-work Halloween zombies.
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A serious boy gets sidetracked by the draw of other boys - when he is supposed to be competing as a high school preacher. As talented a preacher as Micah is, he is sick of it. He finds more than he can handle when he chases something exciting on the Left Coast, something everybody back home will tell him is immoral.
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There are more things to this picnic than the usual food and fun; there is the fact of not knowing what is going on. Clark, with a group from his high school, gets involved in an incident of affection with a guy he thought was a casual friend. The question at the beach when the fires start up is what everybody else thinks about what happened, or the question is only what Clark thinks.
27) Neil Intense
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A downcast hick boy finds himself powerfully drawn to the kid he rescued in the pond last fall - the problem is, he hasn't seen the boy since. With the coming of the Fourth of July, the bone-dry pond makes it look like he never will. Neil has to somehow find him on this desolate American landscape, and then he needs to take him back to water if he does.