Dark Forces

By William Bumgarner

Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates, a teenager discovers a dark power that allows him to take vengeance on his persecutors. But who is the true victim of that power?

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Bumgarner
• Release date: Apr 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476087863

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Dark Forces

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William Bumgarner

Dark Forces

Copyright 2012 by William Bumgarner

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This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of the characters to any actual persons, alive or dead, is purely coincidental.

Cover design by William Bumgarner

It is often said that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Unfortunately for Tommy Lawford, the aforementioned caveat was nothing more than a series of meaningless words. He had spent his entire life wishing for things he had never received. For years, he had wished that he was not grossly overweight, that his face was not covered with acne, that his eyes were not mismatched (one blue, the other brown), that his hair was not scraggly red, that his parents had not abandoned him and left him alone, that he had enough money to buy a car, that the kids at school did not make fun of him; that, somewhere, there was just one girl with the capacity to see beyond his unpleasant interior to love the lonely, desperate boy hidden within...

The list of unfulfilled wishes went on and on. By the end of his sophomore year, Tommy had become a loner, bitter and reclusive. No longer did he wish for friends (male or female) or social acceptance. No longer did he wish for happiness or a satisfying role in mainstream society. No, by the summer of his sixteenth year, Tommy wished for only one thing:

Revenge!

In his troubled mind, Tommy blamed the world, and all who dwelt therein, for all his troubles and heartaches. His soul was consumed by hatred for all of humanity. He hated people. All people. He hated his father for being a no good alcoholic who just up and disappeared one day. He hated his mother for the insanity which caused her to take her own life on his fourth birthday. He hated his schoolmates because of their cruelty toward him. He hated strangers for the expressions of contempt or, worse, pity that he saw on their freshly-scrubbed faces. He hated crowds because the presence of others only served to emphasize his own loneliness. He even hated himself and