We stood as four brothers. We ended as four ghosts. Those easy tan summers with one another betrayed our homes. The story is about a teen-age boy trying to fit in a small town in SC. Although he lives in violence, is beaten up at home, his friends hold him straight. As they run the streets, evading the Police, and disturbing the peace, the laughs last forever. He begins to become too many people like his crazy mother. By doing so he loses what matter the most in this town, his friends. From 1979 to 1983, four teen-aged boys share more with one another than tall tales, they share danger, crime, and heart ache. This journey you are about to take is akin to Stephen King's short story "The Body" meets "The Outsiders."
Stephen King Can't Beat Newberry! will bring the reader deep into the South in 79-83. Growing up with teenager pains while enduring getting my self beaten at home. Coping with a psycho mother and her wild Indian Shell Shocked boyfriend. You will log in mentally to these tales of Straights, Gays, Lesbians and Religion. You will smell the sweet pine, see the make-up of faces and of foes (Friends or Enemies). Then if you can handle being chased by a perverts and crooked law dogs. Racism, Escapism, Gayism, and teens trying to raise parents. This book is for anyone who is struggling with any one with addictions or identity issues. Some details of sexuality in the book, drugs, LSD, coke, and beer. Biker gangs, and rednecks while fighting the World, trying to survive to 15 years of age.
