Single: romance

By Pantson Fire

A love story about young people won't have many answers, but may let you know you're not alone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AvantLifeGuard Books
• Release date: Oct 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386047643

Pantson Fire

When Pantson Fire first started publishing his books, he benefitted from some amazing coincidences, like when a horse named Pants On Fire (Rosie Napravnik up) ran in the Kentucky Derby. He has had an up and down career, such as when his Canadian publisher went out of business.

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By: Pantson Fire

Copyright © 2018 by J. J. Brearton

AvantLifeGuard Books

All Rights Reserved

Part I

Arabian Princess

Chapter 1

Full of quixotic, lofty, unattainable ideals, Philip Easton came to Northwest Connecticut College without a compass or a guide, and, in large part, to avoid his upstate New York troubles. Sure, getting mugged and beaten up in the street was nothing unique. Philip even knew it was partly his fault, but his thinking was—get out of town—why hang around?

His friends from high school—most of them had left town too. They’d gone their separate ways.

His main goal? A girlfriend.

But for now he was stuck in a room in a dormitory with a guy he didn’t know—kind of a slow boat through freshman year type of thing.

Philip didn’t have much to say. That wasn’t Howard Grouper’s mode.

We were the wildest guys in Long Island—non parallel! Howard would exclaim, in one of his unending rants, bragging about the unexciting adventures of his north shore buddies. Or, that’s how Philip saw the situation.

Howard would often say that he planned on becoming the biggest drug dealer on campus. There are lots of guys who like the weed. We got an excellent supply—unending! I’ll make huge bucks!

Grouper would go on and on about how his posse smoked lavish pipefuls of hash, crashed parties, and held wild beach bonanzas in Smithtown and the Hamptons, their Cadillacs and Lincolns splashing into the surf in the hilarity.

Certainly, Philip and his own guys had plenty of fun, making movies, playing football in the snow at Christmastime, and had been hitting downtown bars and meeting girls in upstate New York and elsewhere ever since they were fifteen, but there was no way he could squeeze in an anecdote, with the outstanding Howard holding the floor.

It would almost make Philip want to study. Once, during a lecture by Howard on Greenwich Village bars, Philip said, "Excuse me, but I’ve got a

Reviews for Single

[john · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Crazy college hijinks--a coming of age shocker--set in about 2010--somewhere around there. New England college life. Literary romance.