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D is for Diphtheria

Sam · 2008-01-04T05:15:24Z

D IS FOR DIPHTHERIA: Written November 2007. Synopsis: Carl Malloy isn't much of anything. Besides being a star employee at the local Dairy Queen in the town of New Prague, Nebraska, most of his time spent hiding from life in general and idolizing a godlike lifeguard who leant him a towel after a disaster involving someone else's vomit. But when a locker room encounter goes terribly awry, he finds himself in Dr. Kaufmann's office--a psychologist interested particularly in Aggressive Teens. In Group Therapy he meets a girl named Sukie, a half-Japanese, half-insane child prodigy with "maladjustment issues"--and soon, she becomes his (only) best friend. When his father hits a stray ball deep into the woods lining the golf course, they make a discovery as unexpected as it is shocking, hurling both Carl and Sukie into the paths of sociopathic class presidents, teenaged burnouts, forbidden lovers, travelling preachers and a woman who claims herself to be a hundred and fifty years old--both, all the while, desperately seeking the truth regarding a town that was never supposed to exist. ___ Notes : I'll put up the chapters as I re-edit them. I'm absolutely horrid at formatting, so if you see any mistakes, please holler at me. ^_^ Other than that, any type of feedback would be lovely! It doesn't have to be a huge, story-altering thing--just a few thoughts would make my day.