I Was a Teenage Death God Pictorials (see also Photography Michael traces his early years

Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male--a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family

the transcendent beauty of human connections

if you've felt like nothing and everything all at once

Poet James Tate said it best: "It is a book for everyone

I Was a Teenage Death God Pictorials (see also Photography Michael traces his early yearsHIGH SCHOOL IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT BASICALLY BEING A DEATH GOD Every time seventeen year old Charlie Ford touches someone, they absorb seconds of their life . . . which adds up when Charlie has no way of giving that time back. It feels like enough of a curse without Lou the bratty bully of a ghost who's hung around Charlie since childhood forcing them to hand over that stolen life for her to use. Charlie will steal life from whomever Lou tells them