title: We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories
author:  Owen King 
description: From the 26-year-old scion of literary giant Stephen King comes a compelling, imaginative debut collection of four short stories both creepy and heartfelt, plus a compassionate novella about a 15-year-old son of a single mother. Set in Maine around the 2000 election, the title novella captures the teenage narrator's anger over his mother's impending marriage to Dr. Vic, while his family, led by a union organizer grandfather, seethes over Bush's election. George lays siege to his mother's relationship and helps his grandfather build a sniper's nest from which to attack the paperboy who defaces the old man's "Al Gore is the Real President" sign. Freaks and weirdosexternal symptoms of his protagonists' inner strugglespeople King's shorter stories, which strive to balance the lurid with a reach for emotional truth. In "Wonders," about a baseball player who takes his pregnant girlfriend to a Coney Island circus freak abortionist, the macabre and the heartfelt feel discordant, and the story ends with unearned violence. But in "Frozen Animals," King achieves a surreal blend of gory, vivid description of unanesthetized dental surgery layered with the drug-addicted dentist's intermittent memories of a happier past. This original collection heralds the arrival of the next generation. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Civil Origin: Book Two
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  CIVIL SONS
  
  
  First edition. June 11, 2019.
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 C.M. Cevis.
  
  
  Written by C.M. Cevis.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  #  1
  
  
  ###  OWEN SLIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR to his father’s office and did his best to
  close it without drawing too much attention. He’d known about the meeting
  earlier that day and that his father wanted him there, but band practice had
  run late, and the meeting had gotten started without him. His father glanced
  up as he made his way around the perimeter of the room, and Owen nodded his
  apology as he took a seat on the plush loveseat.
  
  
  There were three oth