Stephen Tesher's Blog: My Life is a Cliche - Posts Tagged "black-ice"

I've been invited into the creative writing classes of a high school to read from my new novel, Black Ice. The novel's a coming of age thriller. It's about a high school aged boy with too many breaks coming face to face with an elusive love he can't have. The character has a drinking problem and uses it to deal with life's obstacles. He falls into sexual acts he's never tried before; he consumes copious drugs with less-than-ideal friends; at one point he considers a killing spree. All fun stuff to read. EXCEPT this high school is in the same district as the middle school where I teach. The maturing juniors and seniors I am reading to were once the same bright eyed, hormonally crazed, morphing little adolescents in my 7th or 8th grade English class. They looked to me for guidance. They asked me questions about writing. They were silly and distracted. Now I'm reading this... stuff... to them! I'm a little nervous, actually. Stay tuned to find out how it all turns out.