''It Sucks To Be You''

About the Book

This is the true story of Audrey, an average teenager who, after spending junior high in Hell, goes to an all girls school where she feels “handling one sex at a time would be easier,” but soon discovers that a sheltered life is really no life at all.  Taking a job at a movie theater, she meets the men of her dreams and is accepted into their small, eclectic group.  She becomes friends with the members of this diverse group of male personalities, gaining insight into their thoughts on drugs, tobacco, sex, relationships, their fears, and insecurities.  She learns the difference between acceptance and tolerance.  Between verbal swipes and real pain.  She also learns a hard lesson in false hope, of unrequited love and absolute heartbreak. Just another day.  Finally accepting that life will alternate between cruel and hysterical, euphoric and desolate all within a span of ten seconds, she goes boldly forward, armed only with the words of Mark Twain:  “Against the force of laughter, nothing can stand.”  Audrey is everyone who is or remembers what it was like to be sixteen, and totally suck at it.

About the Author

Wantonminds is the pseudonym I have chosen for myself. By definition, wanton means “hard to control,” “”undisciplined,” and “unruly.” I have always wanted to be those things. They sound so alive and exciting. So from now on I am wantonminds, if only in my own mind. My real name will mean nothing to you. Suffice to say I am an average young woman living a typical life, surrounded by teenagers and all the little dramas that make up their lives. My life has been dramatic lately, so I decided to write it down, because the passing of time, like sunlight, can make everything fade until it is hard to recognize or remember. I did not want any of these memories to fade, not the conversations, the feelings, or the growth they generated in me. Now they are here, waiting here for me, whenever I want to revisit the past.