Topher Lydon
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Chapter Thirteen: Ghost in the Machine The citrus solvent had stopped smelling clean. It smelled like failure now, like the chemical ghost of things that wouldn’t come out. Finn was on his knees in the middle of the garage bay, scrubbing at a patch of concrete that was already spotless, his knuckles white around the stiff bristles of the brush. He’d been at it for twenty minutes. The circular motion was a mantra, a stupid, physical prayer: erase, erase, erase. The midday sun was a
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Jason's dad is a ... nasty piece of work. It is Heavily implied in later books that Andrew and Clovis had to "deal" with him. We don't come out and say it, but our lads dealt with a problem. Jason is a tragedy that should never have happened, but later, he saves West's life. So he finds his bravery, even though it costs him dearly.
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Their dynamic is fun. Ned keeps nicking his hats.
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The CIA are DESPERATE to get Yani back, they made a colossal mistake issuing a burn notice on him during RECOURSE. Nothing motivates a person better than revenge on an organization that left you to rot in a foreign prison.
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Hah I must resist spoliers, but it's worth the read. Graves, Graves is a monumental dick.
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This is covered in the text, and it... Graves is a REAL threat to West because he knows EXACTLY who West is, what he is doing at night, and who it all ties back to. I fear West has a real nemesis for a change, who not only wants to beat him, but views Peter as the real prize.
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The DG's heroic destruction of CSIS Headquarters destroyed records of who, exactly, West is.
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Some men see a beautiful person like Peter and assume it's soft. Peter is anything but soft. He's a razor blade wrapped in spikes, hidden under velour. Squeeze him and find out. LOL Unfortunately two 14 year olds have painted a giant arrow right back to him. And that arrow can be seen from Orbit.
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awwwwwwww now I want a boston Cream! They just don't make them right over here... I can see one, right there in that gif... damn. Now I am ordering donuts for breakfast delivery
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The Next Chapter is Ned's. (And a minor character in Ned's story, you might have heard of him, but shhh he might get an ego)
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Flour Power Bakery Demands that every bean do their duty!
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CHAPTER FOUR Location: The Brambles (2km North of Merrickville Sector) Time: 0800 Hours The problem with living with a retired intelligence analyst was that he saw the patterns in everything. The problem with living with an artist was that he saw the patterns in nothing that couldn't be framed and hung on a wall. West Harding stood before the corkboard he’d mounted in the corner of the A-frame’s main room, a mug of bitter chicory root coffee cooling beside him. It wasn't a boar
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Bear with me, fixing some dialogue... texture... and trying my best not to throttle the AI thingy that was just supposed to sweep for spelling and grammar and decided to gut my dialogue for some unfathomable reason. I need about a quarter of an hour.
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He knows *something* is going on. But West isn't aware... much... about drugs. As evidenced when he found Joey's.
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All these people presuming Peter's the bottom.... he is, but the assumption of it!
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It's why I reference Innes Road a LOT in my earlier books, especially the Tim Hortons and the Denny's up that way. And often you find the characters traveling East on the 417, instead of West.
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Yeah, many many many years ago.... I needed an Ontario location for my stories... as Blackburn Hamlet was a bit small for what I needed. So my friend Marty (the inspiration for Brody) Said Merrickville and South Carleton High.... and so... viola. Plus I grew up in New Brunswick, and I didn't really want to set the book there. It was a bit too small. So I needed proximity to Ottawa, a School, and the Canal... so yeah
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Love is love, Kyle, we're modern! WINKS
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ahhh one of my rules for writing this is that Garrett has nothing. Crap job that pay's next to nothing. No real furniture, a car that was falling apart, and yellow shirts. LOTS of yellow shirts. haha and one determined Kyle
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I mean, he could fail the final exam, I hear it's a particularly tough Oral one.
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He is, this story are his first steps, his realization that he has a problem, that things are wrong in his life and that he needs to get help. He does find that help.
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Will is going to be tested, as are those two boys. But Tommy is amazing in this one, he really finds his own voice and his place in the family.
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I like to view this as an expression of love from both to each other. Garrett realizing that he's Kyle's boyfriend, and Kyle bringing Garrett into his world. The genuine joy of finding someone you can share who you are with. They're friends as well as lovers, geeking out over pizza and just being.
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There is a genuine love for these early books. This one is more slice of life than anything deep. But it goes a long way to helping the reader understand the characters. Andrew's love for Will, Peter's introduction, Will's father's mentality.
