Life Lessons

From the critically acclaimed author of Oliver Loving and The Story of Forgetting is a short story about friendship, loss and growing up. ______________________

Life lesson: the most soothing salve available to the man who has recently torched his own face is a regular application of wickedness with a pretty girl.

The choices we make can follow us, and when half of your face is torched you can't escape the past. As a freshman in college he meets friends and attends parties, red cup in tow. His face is a Rorschach test to his friends, though he'll never tell them what really happened.

In his group of friends there is Ava- sardonic, infatuating and alarmingly beautiful Ava. But he's too burnt up to be considered as anything more than a 'bestie' to a girl like her...

© 2019 Atlantic Books (Ebook): 9781838950392

Release date

Ebook: 11 July 2019