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The Rat Boy

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction

"My mother caught Roy Lambert looking through her bedroom window at a quarter to four in the morning."

Roy Lambert also happens to be a Vietnam vet who served with Gerard--the brother of the eponymous Rat Boy, who inherited from his brother a necklace made of human teeth and shows Roy where he can sleep, deep in the tunnels below Los Angeles.

The Rat Boy knows from problems. His estranged father is a police officer with proclivities for shotguns and domestic violence, and perhaps not estranged enough. His mother mourns the son she lost to the war. And the Rat Boy? He’s trying to sort through his life, his memories of his brother, and what little Roy Lambert leaves behind--about Roy Lambert’s fate, he chooses not to worry too much, instead giving over to what little hope he’s ever known.

Language: English

Pages: 23

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Exciting Press

Release: November 02, 2012

The Rat Boy

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction

"My mother caught Roy Lambert looking through her bedroom window at a quarter to four in the morning."

Roy Lambert also happens to be a Vietnam vet who served with Gerard--the brother of the eponymous Rat Boy, who inherited from his brother a necklace made of human teeth and shows Roy where he can sleep, deep in the tunnels below Los Angeles.

The Rat Boy knows from problems. His estranged father is a police officer with proclivities for shotguns and domestic violence, and perhaps not estranged enough. His mother mourns the son she lost to the war. And the Rat Boy? He’s trying to sort through his life, his memories of his brother, and what little Roy Lambert leaves behind--about Roy Lambert’s fate, he chooses not to worry too much, instead giving over to what little hope he’s ever known.

Language: English

Pages: 23

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Exciting Press

Release: November 02, 2012

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