Bryce Stallworth is a high school Valedictorian and now college junior who has found himself in a precarious situation at U of E. Mourning the persona and values of his youth, he struggles to cope and excel in the new, open world he now inhabits. As Bryce fights to maintain his integrity, he encounters drugs, alcohol, sex, relationships, friendship, depression, self-harm, and hospitalization along the road to his final destination: the chance to uncover his true self and discover meaning and personal power in this existence. Download the e-book here for free: Purchase here and elsewhere across the web:

All biography has something of that post-mortem coldness and respect, and, as for autobiography, a man may show his soul in a thousand, half-conscious ways, but to turn on oneself to explain oneself is given to no one. It is the natural resort of liars and braggarts. Your Cellinis and Casanovas, men with the habit of regarding themselves with a kind of objective admiration do best in autobiography. And, on the other hand, the novel has neither the intense self-consciousness of autobiography nor the paralysing responsibilities of the biographer. It is by comparison irresponsible and free. Because its characters are figments and phantoms, they can be made entirely transparent. Because they are fictions, and you know they are fictions, so that they cannot hold you for an instant so soon as they cease to be true, they have a power of veracity quite beyond that of actual records.



–HG Wells

© Barry Philip Shifrin

