: Otis Hanby
: Homeless Every Body is a Home
: BookBaby
: 9781098305963
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: CHF 3.10
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 262
: kein Kopierschutz
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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Seventeen-year-old Bryan had been on his own for a long time now. Life was tough in his rural Texas town, but he was giving it his best shot. Things were looking up when he entered into an intense relationship with a street-smart Mexican girl named Rosa. Then a dark turn takes place. Harassed by local bullies, Bryan's anger and suppressed hostility rises to the surface. It soon becomes clear that his violent lashing out is more than just self-defense, or even a troubled teenager's need for revenge. Bryan's friends have been dabbling in the forbidden world of the occult, unwittingly releasing a form of evil they never imagined. Bryan is the target. His soul is the prize. Rosa is perceptive enough to realize something sinister is going on, and that Bryan is - quite literally - not really himself anymore. A malevolent battle is being waged just outside the visible world. Bryan's life intersects with bikers, cops, truck drivers and many others, but none of them can see what is truly happening. A dark entity is hell-bent on using the homeless youth for its own malevolent purposes...with only the love a determined young woman standing in its way.

Chapter 1

“I’m glad that shit’s done,” Bryan said as he climbed into the cab of the semi on the passenger side. He’d just completed unloading a trailer full of frozen hamburgers, breakfast sandwiches, and other vending machine foods. Uncle Gary, not really his uncle, gave Bryan a job as a lumper to help him get along. Most loads he delivered were on dedicated routes, and the longest Bryan stayed on the road was a day or two during the week. Uncle Gary told Bryan that he could use him three or four days a week and would pay him an honest wage, which he needed it for sure. School had let out for the summer the week before, and he was going to be a senior now.

Bryan, now seventeen years old, with dirty blonde hair, bangs a little too long and hanging in his eyes, left home at fifteen and never went back. His mom had abruptly run off with another man, abandoning him and his father. Bryan’s dad was already an alcoholic, and now he began hitting the bottle even harder. The functioning alcoholic soon became a deadbeat drunk. Unpaid bills piled up, his dad didn’t even buy groceries, and Bryan’s resentment toward his fatherfestered.

His aunt stopped by to check on the broken family after her calls went unanswered, and she took Bryan away from his home in Garland to stay with her in Sulfur Springs, Texas. Neither Bryan nor his dad protested thematter.

Bryan’s Aunt Caryn had enrolled him at school as a sophomore. Although he passed all his classes, he was getting into fights continuously. Being a city slicker kid with a chip on his shoulder alienated him and made him a target for the locals. Bryan, however, quickly made friends with the misfits of the school. And although they were loyal, it didn’t help his case as he continued to get intotrouble.

Bryan’s troubles put a strain on his aunt and uncle’s marriage. In short order, it became apparent that he was in the way, with his uncle calling Bryan a loser and a fuck-up behind closed doors while arguing with his aunt. He continually heard them fighting and had enough. He soon left to stay with his friendRuss.

Russ’s dad, Kemp, was a burnout who owned a local comic book shop and was never home, so it was easy for Bryan to crash there. He ended up staying with Russ, and his senile grandmother, for half of his junior year. Bryan decided it would be best to leave after Kemp came home high, from God-knows-what, and accused Bryan of stealing from him. He might have borrowed the occasional pack of sm