Kyler Doss
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Uptight high school boy faces two problems:
1) find a boyfriend;
2) keep it secret if you actually do.
The coming dance in this overseas American school, a place stuck in the Arabian desert, will spin everything toward the real and the possible. But people love to gossip and Tim can't stand it when they do - he is going to have to get used to it or else forget about the whole thing.
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The things you would never say - those are the things one boy decides to sling unguarded when his emotions have blown up on him. Rusty picks a boy on the uncaring sidewalks of November to unload his feelings on, all his frustration over boys that don't like him back. The boy he calls out is going to get a full dose of just how broken Rusty is.
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Falling for a 6th-grade boy when you're only a 5th-grade boy puts you on real shaky ground. But Chip has to find a way to get to him - he's got 60 seconds every morning if the two of them could start walking the wall together. Then it would come down to putting it on the line - how do you touch him or say something that will let him know how you feel?
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When the last inning of the last game is over, you normally pick up your stuff in the dugout and go home. Sandy is a 14-year-old boy minding his own business - another season at first base - when the center fielder wants him to go with him for food. Sandy must not have heard the after-game plan, that the whole team is going there - unless he just got asked out on a date.
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A lonesome boy disappears on the night of his high school graduation - longing for a stranger he can tell his story to. He practices the make-or-break greetings he will use in this land of exile - the Arizona desert - where he spends his nights meeting the bus from Yuma. The next bus is due a few minutes after Henry turns 18, which gives him a birthday wish: that the stranger will step off.
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A shy boy fears that he won't make a friend, but then he does, unless the other boy is only acting. The street theater game the kids are playing swallows up everything on the avenue, from what is real to what is not. Oz can only hope that the boy he likes is for real, or else love tells the biggest lie of all.
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Impossible love drives a boy off for a school that trains priests - where he meets a boy he can't turn away from. With a little luck, no one will uncover how Ian feels - including the boy he loves. Ian hides the truth from himself, too, but the problem hounds him - what do you do when you find the Midwestern boy that you weren't supposed to find?
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A would-be lover boy can't tell the new boy how much he likes him - it's just easier to be unhappy. Sam skulks across the sidewalks of this hush-hush town, where he also holds out on his best friend - not a hint of the secret. The new boy flits around somewhere out there and Sam feels lost, unable to come clean - unless your best friend is the one that you're supposed to tell this stuff to.
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It's the year of boy-girl parties, the year when they give school dances and you know what is expected of you. Kalhoun tries really hard not to like the boy that he likes in art class, he will write letters to him explaining why he can't like him in this year when the rules get serious, the 7th grade. He won't send the letters, of course, letters that say way too much for the U.S. Mail.
10) Zombie Hayride
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The hayride boys plot to steal a kiss - it's all a matter of who and who. The hayride churns its 6 mph course, but things happen fast for Zander, 13. He tries hard to learn the rules of kissing but the boys keep throwing unexpected things at him: sudden desires and secret feelings and, yes, those wrench-in-the-work Halloween zombies.
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A 21-year-old guy goes in search of a better ending for his story, an ending that never comes. You can't change a story that's already done but he can't stop thinking about it. Things ended badly with the stranger he met in Salt Lake City and he searches for a way to change the past or find out what exactly happened between the two of them - because it kills him the handsome stranger got away.
12) Neil Intense
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A downcast hick boy finds himself powerfully drawn to the kid he rescued in the pond last fall - the problem is, he hasn't seen the boy since. With the coming of the Fourth of July, the bone-dry pond makes it look like he never will. Neil has to somehow find him on this desolate American landscape, and then he needs to take him back to water if he does.
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If one boy in these stories finds another boy to love, that's a bonus - because it's not a guarantee. The boys already have to deal with the uneasy fate of life after high school, the uncharted route they didn't see coming. Love only adds to the freight in these 4 novellas: I'm Not From Here, Your Nihilistic Tea House, If by Chance We Meet, A Particular Friendship.
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A good boy is off to a bad start in college, where he can't get to know anyone - he worries this is all going to turn out like high school did. He has changed his nickname since then to his more adult name, but he never remembers to use it; it just isn't him. One day in philosophy class, a boy that arrives late apparently has to take the first open chair, which is the one next to Kippie.
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There are more things to this picnic than the usual food and fun; there is the fact of not knowing what is going on. Clark, with a group from his high school, gets involved in an incident of affection with a guy he thought was a casual friend. The question at the beach when the fires start up is what everybody else thinks about what happened, or the question is only what Clark thinks.
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A high school boy gets the idea that it's time to tell his best friend who he likes, which is boys. He's been putting it off for a long time and there is still no reason to do it - it could send things spinning out of control if his friend gets all weirded out. Chase doesn't know why he needs to do it - he just does, even if it costs him a friendship that has gotten close since freshman science.
17) Hard Footwork
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A boy that never learned the rules of dating in high school still doesn't know what to do in college, especially when he meets a guy from the Air Force. Max steps outside with the Airman, away from the play-it-safe group dating that's going on at the pleasant honky-tonk. Now Max is holding on for all he's worth in a desert land where the rules never come into focus.
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The new boy crashes the school's-out party of mid-June, where he feels the suspicious eyes of the 6th-grade boys upon him. Steen is afraid to talk to them but wants so bad for them to like him. Football, basketball, track & field - the playground sports throw him into a must-win situation: he either comes up big on a field day under a big American flag or else nobody wants you, not one other boy.
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A here-goes-nothing American boy - open to the things out there in the world - gets deeply involved with the boys of an Eastern European cult. But he's got the situation under control: his exit plan, the train to Budapest, will take him away whenever he wants. The one thing that Eli doesn't see coming is what his own feelings could do to him.
20) Skoog
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From the steps of a moving train, a socially unskilled Dutch boy makes a friend on the platform. The first-time-ever connection stays with him. It means more to him than he can know, that he has joined the battle of his own emotional distance - just by being there one afternoon in Amsterdam, just by meeting a boy he won't forget.