TITLE: Love, Joy, Heartache & Pain
AUTHOR:
John H. Ames
PUBLISHER:
Ai
Press
COVER
ARTIST: Sid Love
LENGTH:
207 Pages
RELEASE
DATE: March 31, 2016
BLURB:
A collection of new entwined stories by
best-selling Young Adult author, John H. Ames. Love that reaches beyond the
boundaries of the physical realm…
Swapatize!
The not so unrealistic
detailed account of how my best friend and I swapped bodies for a short period
of time. -High school is one of the most excruciating and painful periods of
any teenager’s life. To Kyle, it’s hell on earth. Being the target of the jocks
made him hate high school more than anything in the world. All he has is his
best friend and the center of the jock’s interest, the beautiful Kylie
Bursnell. But Kylie is not your typical beauty. She hates the jocks even more
than Kyle, especially Lucas Edward Johnson, a jock who is madly in love with
her and Kyle’s forbidden dream. After a bizarre and freaky night, they swap
bodies and are force to live each other’s live. Can this actually be true? Has
Kyle’s dream come true? Will he be able to love Lucas Edward Johnson
unconditionally until the end of time? Or is their love nothing but a beautiful
dream enveloped in heartache and pain?
The
Spirit Indestructible
Brandon Angelo William
has it all. He’s hot, popular, shy, humble, and one of the typical and regular
guys in high school. But, unbeknownst to everyone, he’s a closeted gay teen who
came out to his parents the previous year. They loved and accepted him with
open arms so what more could Brandon want? Love. The one thing that his soul
and body need. After a late night out with his best friend, Kevin, Brad sees
one of the most beautiful guys he has ever laid eyes on. But could the teen in
front of him be real? Or is he the legendary hitching ghost that everyone talks
about? Brad needs to find out and what he discovers shocks him and changes his
young life forever…
The
Lake View Psychopath
Jocks beware, he’s here
and he’s not scared. Ashton Hall hates his existence at Lake View High. The
jocks have made his life a living hell and his friends have completely turned
their backs on him. Why? For being gay and dating the love of his life, Austin
Young. Almost overnight, they became the center of every joke and every bully’s
paradise. To make matters worse, even the school’s coach allows his ‘jock superstars’
to make fun of them.
And there I stood, at
the entrance of the school, wishing I were anywhere else but in this goddamn
rat hole of hypocrites, liars and backstabbers.
“Move it loser!” Andrew
shouted, knocking me to the side.
And then there was
Andrew Cooper. He and a couple of his jock friends laughed and teased me as
they walked inside the building. Andrew Cooper, the asshole jock, was the main
reason why I hated my life at Gelson High. I couldn’t wait for graduation at
the end of the year, so he could kiss my white ass goodbye once and for all. I
loathed that pathetic little loser with all my heart, body and soul.
“Take comfort in the
fact that this is his fifth year here.” A voice behind me caused me to immediately
turn around.
And there she was, Kylie Bursnell, in all her glory. Now, since she is my best friend, me, a geeky little loser who’s afraid of a big, muscular jock, many of you may think that might make Kylie either a nerd or a reject from hell. Well, that isn’t the case at all. In fact, Kylie is one of the cheerleaders on the Gelson High cheerleading squad. The girl is a freaking bombshell! Every guy wants her, except for my other best friend, Josh, the rebel of our senior class. That’s the clichéd part of this story. For some reason, he doesn’t like her, or they just don’t click. You may be wondering why a girl like her would even be friends with a loser like me since cheerleaders are mostly shallow, arrogant and mean. Well, she’s not the typical cheerleader, that’s for sure. She is real and down to earth, just like me.
Juan H. Alvarado was born in El Salvador C.A. He currently lives in Belize and began writing in 2008. He posted some of his work on an internet website, and after receiving positive feedback, he completed several full-length novels under his pen name, John Henry Ames. His first completed novel is Surviving Elite High. The story chronicles the life of a gay sixteen-year-old boy as he makes his way through life as an outcast in the shadows of an elite high school where he is tormented by two psychopathic bullies. His passions are writing, reading and spending time with the ones he loves.
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I think the cover says it all, I like it!
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