Status Updates From From the Ashes (Boystown #6)

wow, nick. you don't deserve to get him back. that was fucking heartless.

I would die for Nick Nowak

I’m rooting for Nick and the priest. It’s so Fleabag!

If Nick fucks a priest in the first 20 pages I will be wicked impressed.

I wish Mr Thornton would stop making me cry with his final paragraphs.

*4.5 Stars* rounded up

Did ‘younger’ people like use like a lot in the mid eighties? I thought it was like a millennial thing? I know I didn’t use it out of context in 1985. Then again I was grammar police in training at the time. 😉

Oh no! Is this the Joseph? The one who is going to play a bigger part in Nick’s life? I hope not which probably means that he is.

Nick has hit rock bottom (?) Mired in guilt and grief and still incredibly angry. I hope he can begin to heal and forgive himself... lets see.

Ross 😢

“a really cool commercial in the second half for a computer named after a fruit.”

A banana? A pear??!?

I crossed myself and said, “Bless me father for I have sinned.” I should have continued, but I didn’t. Joseph prompted me, “When was your last confession?”
[...] “Um, ten years? Maybe twelve.”
“All right. I have another mass at twelve o’clock. Can we hit the high points?”

Some people are like orchids: delicate, easily bruised, wilted by a chill breeze. Others are more like weeds: stubborn, hard to dig out, impossible to kill. Most people don’t know which they are until life starts to kick them around.

“What made you want to be a priest?”
He looked at me uncomfortably. Then glanced away again. “I wanted to love people.”
“Is that working out the way you hoped it would?”
“Sometimes,” he said.
He gave me a broken smile and walked off into the night.

I glanced up at one to see two guys stacked on top of each other while a third guy fucked them one then the other, then back again. It looked fun, but it also seemed like there’d have to be a long discussion about choreography beforehand. I hated long discussions before sex.

Daniel?

Why is Nick telling Father Joseph so much? What is he's the killer?