Fangboy

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Fangboy is not a children’s book, but it’s sort of inspired by the books I loved as a kid. So I’m dedicating it to the following authors who would probably rather not be associated with this novel, even if they’re deceased:

Beverly Cleary

Judy Blume

Donald J. Sobal

John Dennis Fitzgerald

Helen Hill & Violet Maxwell

Mary Stolz

Super-special thanks to Tod Clark, Terri Garey, Michael McBride, Rick Moschgat, Elizabeth White, and Rhonda Wilson for their feedback, even the feedback that wasn’t “You are AWESOME!!!”

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Though the story is probably apocryphal, it is said that Fangboy twisted around in the womb and emerged from his mother mouth-first, with his glistening sharp teeth the first sight of him to greet the world. Neighbors did indeed report a horrified scream from the midwife, who ran out into the front yard shouting something barely intelligible that might have been “The devil is here! The devil is here!” But when speaking of this incident years later, at least two of the neighbors insisted that the midwife clawed her own eyes out in an attempt to un-see what she had witnessed, which is incorrect and easily verified, so it’s entirely possible that the baby came out in the standard manner.

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