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    The Volunteers: young adult
    The Volunteers: young adult
    The Volunteers: young adult
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    The Volunteers: young adult

    By John Blandly

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    Eryk is 15. He hears that a girl he likes, D W-B, is in a gang. He decides to check it out. He ends up getting beat up, but, in his mind, it was worth it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAvantLifeGuard Books
    Release dateOct 30, 2017
    ISBN9781386511502
    The Volunteers: young adult
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    John Blandly

    John Blandly is an artist, actor, songwriter and filmmaker from upstate New York.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic high school novelette. Gangs, bullies and some sweet romance. As Eryk says, "You got no business being in love if you're just 15." Recommended.

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    The Volunteers - John Blandly

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    The Volunteers | by John Blandly

    The Volunteers

    by John Blandly

    Copyright © MMXXI by J. J. Brearton

    AvantLifeGuard Books

    All Rights Reserved

    . . . the battle between poets and the people who aren't, like, poets . . .

    1

    I'm done screwing up, D W-B said. She threw her hair back. I'll learn from your mistakes. There's less bruising that way. Without even looking at Eryk, she picked up her books and put them in her backpack.

    Damn it, Eryk said, in a whisper.

    Dear God, man, Duke said. Unlisten, for your own good.

    Ifala, another one of Eryk’s buddies, shook his head.

    D W-B put her backpack on and hurried out of Barny's.

    Eryk sat in the booth by the window, and stared wistfully after her.

    Yeah, you got no business being in love if you're just 15.

    2

    Maybe you hated the class on modern poetry, not Eryk. He was into it.

    Eryk wasn't proud of his life. Thank God, he thought, there are no videotapes of everything he'd done. He couldn't live it down.

    When things weren't a total disaster-he just had to be satisfied.

    D W-B, with reddish brown, straight hair, sat across from Eryk in poetry class. He tried

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