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Kids: Some Children Never Learn
Ross and Joe weren’t like the other customers who’d adopted their child from the HUB. They only adopted their son from there due to how difficult it was proving to be for them - a gay couple - to adopt a child of their own from a “normal” orphanage.
For a hefty fee, the HUB didn’t care who was taking the children home with them. There were no background checks and there were no questions, just as long as the payment was made. For Ross and Joe, it seemed the easier option and it had the added benefit of saving one of the children from this hell-hole.
But their new family life starts off on the wrong footing when their son, lacking
the desired attention, microwaves the family dog...
For a hefty fee, the HUB didn’t care who was taking the children home with them. There were no background checks and there were no questions, just as long as the payment was made. For Ross and Joe, it seemed the easier option and it had the added benefit of saving one of the children from this hell-hole.
But their new family life starts off on the wrong footing when their son, lacking
the desired attention, microwaves the family dog...
200 pages, ebook
Published July 1, 2023
46 people want to read
About the author
Matt Shaw
536 books2,225 followersBiography
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
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December 29, 2024
If you haven’t read Matt’s work, make sure you don’t have any triggers. This is NOT for the faint of heart. There is a major trigger warning for CSA.
With that said, Matt is brilliant. This book is amazing. The writing style is great. I couldn’t put the book down.
With that said, Matt is brilliant. This book is amazing. The writing style is great. I couldn’t put the book down.
January 11, 2025
😳🤮
I want to start off by saying I read the first book over a year ago. I have had this book about the same time. I just couldn’t bring myself to read it. The author wrote this series to shock the reader. He certainly did his job.
It was disgusting!
Matt Shaw bravo!
I read a lot of messed up stuff but this… this was 🤢 so vile! The child’s memories of the Hub was almost unbearable for me to get through.
Ross and Joe are amazing characters!
If you are looking for a book to disturb you, gross you out, make you angry, make you sad, and question your own sanity. Try this series. I’m warning you though it’s not for the faint hearted people. Know your triggers!!
Now I need to wash my eyes out!
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I want to start off by saying I read the first book over a year ago. I have had this book about the same time. I just couldn’t bring myself to read it. The author wrote this series to shock the reader. He certainly did his job.
It was disgusting!
Matt Shaw bravo!
I read a lot of messed up stuff but this… this was 🤢 so vile! The child’s memories of the Hub was almost unbearable for me to get through.
Ross and Joe are amazing characters!
If you are looking for a book to disturb you, gross you out, make you angry, make you sad, and question your own sanity. Try this series. I’m warning you though it’s not for the faint hearted people. Know your triggers!!
Now I need to wash my eyes out!
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October 12, 2025
This was so well done. The horrors of the Hub continue, but this time we follow Joe and Ross, who utilize the Hub for selfish reasons but with good intent. I loved how this next installment took a different route than the first, shedding a different light.
This was kind of sad as well, and that ending... WILD.
This was kind of sad as well, and that ending... WILD.
September 8, 2025
thank you matt for ruining my childhood memory of “only on the hub”
February 26, 2026
5 stars but I do not recommend…
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