All The Other Boys

By Laura Rae Amos

A kooky and hopeless young woman recounts the spectacularly awful rise and fall of her first real relationship. Spanning five years of earnest loyalty to this young man, she discovers the truth about sex, religion, life, and herself, interspersed with memories of all the other boys who stole her heart for a short time. For fans of contemporary stories of first love, first disappointment, and growing up, All the Other Boys is darkly comical and ultimately triumphant.

This is a stand-alone novelette at 7000 words (about 30 pages).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laura Rae Amos
• Release date: Dec 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310386091

Laura Rae Amos

Laura Rae Amos is a Michigan native now living near Washington DC with her charming husband and tornado of a little boy. After studying creative writing at the University of Toledo, she moved to the suburbs of Detroit to have a baby instead of an MFA. She is a blogger, web-fiction writer, poet, occasional musician, photographer, dabbling artisan, and all around creative distraction. She has nineteen books in her head and needs to learn to write faster. Or else focus.

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all the other boys, a short story

by Laura Rae Amos

A kooky and hopeless young woman recounts the spectacularly awful rise and fall of her first real relationship. Spanning five years of earnest loyalty to this young man, she discovers the truth about sex, religion, life, and herself, interspersed with memories of all the other boys who stole her heart for a short time. For fans of contemporary stories of first love, first disappointment, and growing up, All the Other Boys is darkly comical and ultimately triumphant.

This is a stand-alone novelette at 7000 words (about 30 pages).

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a work of the author's imagination and used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or business establishments, is completely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Laura Rae Amos

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, current, not yet invented, or by any extraterrestrial technology, without permission in writing from the publisher. Brief passages may be quoted with citation for review purposes.

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sixteen

When I was sixteen, I met my boyfriend. It was Fourth of July weekend and I was camping with my family. My sister and I snuck off to meet some guy named Alex that we’d met at the vending machines earlier that day. Alex lived in Milford, Michigan. Here, he said, holding up his hand like the mitten-shaped state, pointing to the spot where the ball of his thumb met the cup of his palm. I poked his hand back on the fleshy mound near his wrist. We’re from Monroe.

Alex was the cute one, but I got stuck with his friend—I didn’t learn his name that night. My sister whispered to me before she walked off into the woods with Alex, Don’t worry. They’re my age, so it’s okay.

She didn’t say what was okay, but just left me on the concrete edge of the lake dam with his friend,