The Listeners
by Harrison Demchick
Price: $8.99 USD. 103240 words.
Published by Bancroft Press on January 18, 2013. Fiction.
In a borough quarantined due to an airborne illness that causes deformity, insanity, and death, a 14-year-old boy named Daniel, orphaned by the plague, is caught up with a one-eared gang/cult called the Listeners.
But all he really wants is to find his best friend Katie, trapped elsewhere in the quarantine.
Harrison Demchick's electrifying debut is a harrowing work of literary horror.
Member Since: Jan. 18, 2013
Harrison Demchick
Biography
Raised in Baltimore, Maryland on a steady diet of magical realism, literary fiction, science-fiction, and Spider-Man comics, Harrison Demchick spent most of his formative years inside his own head, working out strange thoughts and ideas that would eventually make their way into stories, screenplays, and songs.
He went to Oberlin College to attain one of modern day’s most notoriously useless degrees, a BA in English with a creative writing concentration, but then actually used it, working the last seven years as a book editor. Harrison is also a screenwriter, and the winner of the 2011 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition.
The Listeners was born in an independent study in fiction during Harrison’s senior semester at Oberlin. Originally a series of interconnected short stories, it was adapted first into a screenplay, and then, from the screenplay, into his first novel. Harrison hopes ardently that The Listeners will catch on in such a way that he doesn’t have to market it.
He lives still in Baltimore, working on a musical and various screenplays.
He went to Oberlin College to attain one of modern day’s most notoriously useless degrees, a BA in English with a creative writing concentration, but then actually used it, working the last seven years as a book editor. Harrison is also a screenwriter, and the winner of the 2011 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition.
The Listeners was born in an independent study in fiction during Harrison’s senior semester at Oberlin. Originally a series of interconnected short stories, it was adapted first into a screenplay, and then, from the screenplay, into his first novel. Harrison hopes ardently that The Listeners will catch on in such a way that he doesn’t have to market it.
He lives still in Baltimore, working on a musical and various screenplays.
Where to find Harrison Demchick online
Website: http://www.harrisondemchick.com
Twitter: HDemchick
Twitter: HDemchick
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