Just Released!HAFFLINGby  
HAFFLING, set inManhattan, is the story of sixteen year old Alex Nevus, his little sisterAlice, and his mentally ill mother, Marilyn.  Alex is a brilliant guydetermined to hold his family together against a backdrop of unbearabletragedy.  Years earlier he and his sister were placed in a foster homewhere Alice was molested, and Alex pushed the man who did it to hisdeath.  He's also haunted by the specter of his own madness.  Ever since he can remember he's had asix-inch bare-breasted fairy named Nimby sitting on his shoulder, that combinedwith a schizophrenic mother gives him cause for worry.  Further down on the list of things that keephim up at night is his growing crush on the most-perfect boy in his class, whocurrently goes out with the most-perfect girl.
Since being reunited as afamily, Alex has become a master of knowing the rules.  All of which goesto hell when his mother fails to show up for her disability hearing.  Whenhe tracks her down to a park at the northern tip of NYC, his world comes undoneas he follows her into a parallel realm. There, he meets a power-hungry queen who would conquer the world, butrequires a suitable vessel to pass between the dimensions.  She needs Alex...or at least parts of him tomake that happen.
HAFFLING is available as an ebook through amazon and Barnes and Noble, and as both an ebook and paperback through the publisher--Dreamspinner Press/Harmony Ink (it will eventually be available in paperback through other on-line sellers, as well.)
 


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