Beaten, Seared, And Sauced (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I knew how to talk to adults, but not to others my own age. I was a tiny kid—bait for bullies. And the world was just about at an end. We’d moved from some remote burg in the White Mountains of New Hampshire down to a small town bordering Massachusetts. We lived next door to my grandparents. This was during the autumn when I was five, and, because of the move, why I never finished kindergarten. I was reading already, so I was set to start first grade the following September. There were no other kids around; my sister was a toddler and therefore useless. I spent the year with books and playing by myself in my own fantastical hazes. I counted Charlie Bucket, heir to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, as a good friend. I took a seat around the Cratchit family’s Christmas table. Laura Ingalls was my first girlfriend. Right before we moved, I’d undergone one of the great rites of passage. My parents took me to the drive-in and we saw Bambi. After Bambi’s mother was shot, our car was one of many queuing up at the exit with a weeping, hysterical little kid in the backseat.
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