Beware The Short Terminal Guy With Nothing

I Think The Value In Books Like Mine, And A Great Number By Other Talented Writers, Is In The Ability To Bring Dark Subjects Into The Open Where They Are Not So Dark, Where They Can Be Talked About And Considered By Teens And Adults Alike.

I Am For Anything That Makes Teens Visible In An Honest Way... In Other Words, Anything That Represents Them The Way They Are, Positively Or Negatively.

There's Only One Thing To Say To The Censors: Shut Up.

It's A Scary Thing; Moving On. Part Of Me Wishes Life Were More Predictable And Part Of Me Is Excited That It's Not. I Think It's Impossible To Tell The Good Things From The Bad Things While They're Happening.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.