Published: March 28, 2011
Words: 5,535 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452408637

Short description

This is a short story originally published by "The Sylvan Echo" in a modified form. There is a bonus piece of flash fiction included as well. In Blue lips and crayons, friends go home to mourn their friend and find out that more things have changed over time than just themselves.

Extended description

Crane, Virgil and Dan leave the city to go to their suburban childhood home of New Hebron and mourn the death of their friend Drexel who died in a suspicious accident. One other friend is absent at the funeral and the young men go looking for him and find him. His name is Benjamin and he was the rich kid when they grew up. His lips also happen to be stained blue from an accident in high school that connects the beginning and the end. An unresolved grudge haunts the characters and now so does a suspicious accident they find isn't an accident at all.

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Tags

tragedy, death, betrayal, satire, church, epiphany, transformation, twisted, offbeat, atheists, grudge

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Review by: Margaret McKay on March 31, 2011 :
Excellent read! Very interesting twists and turns in a tale of 3 young men.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: Jonah Gibson on March 31, 2011 :
Three young men travel back in space and time to the 'post card' New England town of their upbringing. They've come to bury one of their own, a high-school chum who died in an accident that is both tragic and shrouded in the murk of things half-said and 'gossip that spreads like pollen'.

Along the way they must confront the tenuous connections of past to present and the sticky residue of a religion they have long since abandoned as they uncover the truth of their friend's fate.

In Blue Lips and Crayons Joshua Jones weaves a compelling tale of lost youth coming to grips, not just with its mortality, but its capacity for betrayal of all it once held sacred. A good read - short, evocative, satisfying.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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