Interior Spaces: Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016

As two adolescent boys struggle to survive the interior spaces of the American Midwest, they endure the inevitable rites of passage associated with the angst of puberty. Though their suburban surroundings present a façade of normalcy, the bullies who torment them are particularly craven and vicious. On the eve of profound personal discovery, they suffer a traumatizing assault that will irrevocably change their lives. Two awkward middle-school outcasts come together against their bullies when they author the "Modus Moronicon: A Functional Adolescent Guide for Surviving the Interior Spaces of America". Then everything changes.