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"It's funny the things a 14 year-old boy will think are his own fault."Sean is a paperboy in a suburban part of Oregon where “nobody is gay” and the newspaper is still delivered by ambitious school boys (or girls). Brad is a pharmacy technician and sociopath who likes to experiment with mind altering drugs. He thinks he has created the perfect “mind control” hypnotic that will make him irresistible to the teenage boys that he secretly craves. The only problem is that he has never had the nerve to slip it to anyone. Brad has been watching Sean for months. At the mall where Brad works, Sean can frequently be seen doing tricks on his skateboard. Brad always finds time to watch. One morning, when Brad wakes up frustrated by a recurring erotic dream, he knows it’s time to try out the drug. The strange and often hilarious adventure begins when the paperboy comes to collect; the adventure takes Brad from his dreary suburb to the seediest parts of Hollywood. Here he find even more teenagers – including the desperate runaways whose world makes Brad’s look fairly tame. One of the biggest problems with gay fiction is that so much of it is written from a "top-down" perspective. It is stories about porn stars as written by people who have never been close to a porn star unless they paid for it; It is frequently about privileged youths exploring their sexuality, or about poor rich men whose boy-toys will just never understand them. WHERE ARE THE STORIES ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING A HOMELESS GAY TEENAGER? WHERE ARE THE STORIES ABOUT BEING DRUGGED AND RAPED AND LEFT TO DIE? Make no mistake, The Pill and the Paperboy is gay erotic grunge with wall-to-wall language and situations of an adult nature. It has to be that way, or it would just be another lie. The bottom lines is that I (we) may get some flack for promoting this work, but I could point out more graphic and more pedophilic scenes from novels by Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne), Peter Straub (Juniper Tree), and the revered Toni Morrison whose Bluest Eye has graphic 1st person accounts of raping a very young girl -- and that was required reading at a State College. I don't pretend to put Jason Hart into any of those leagues, but the story becomes just as valid.
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