Kill Me Now. Timmy Reed

      Kill Me Now

      Copyright © 2018 by Timmy Reed

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events is unintended and entirely coincidental.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Reed, Timmy, author.

      Title: Kill me now : a novel / Timmy Reed.

      Description: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017030650 | ISBN 9781619025370 (hardcover)

      Subjects: LCSH: Teenage boys—Fiction. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.

      Classification: LCC PS3618.E43587 K55 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017030650

      Jacket designed by Debbie Berne

      Book interior by Wah-Ming Chang

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      To Baltimore and adolescence: Best wishes.

      Love,

      Timmy

      It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

      —frederick douglass