7/7/2023 0 Comments Joyride by Stephen Crye![]() ![]() He's had more than enough: I won't let him make me dead inside. What could go wrong?Īnd then there's Robert's widowed father, a cemetery caretaker paralyzed in a graveyard accident-sure, those things happen-who is a raging bastard in a wheelchair, demanding the same breakfast every morning at the same hour and wants Robert to continue the family tradition of being a raging bastard cemetery caretaker. ![]() He's written Carla a poem and has two scarlet ribbons to give to her. He may have good hair, vibrant eyes, and fine features, but all that's lost on his high school classmates: to them he's a gangly, awkward-limbed, tongue-tied goof who they've nicknamed "Coma Man" with an embarrassing crush on Carla, the prettiest girl in school. Living in a California town known as America's preeminent burial ground, where the dead outnumber the living five thousand to one, he's a sensitive 17-year-old boy with a fondness for poetry, instilled in him by his dear departed mother, and he actually enjoys reading books like The Iliad for school. ![]()
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