Lester Barry Speaks Out

November is National Novel Writing Month. I am participating in NaNoWriMo, a monthlong writing contest in which we must write 50K words by November 30. My story is called "Lester Barry Speaks Out." The story is about Lester Barry, a senior in a very fundamentalist Christian high school in a very fundamentalist Christian town. If you are a fundamentalist Christian, you may not like this story, for it makes fun of the excesses of the people whom I like to call "Christian crackheads." They are so cracked out on God that they have no sense of rationality, much like a drug addict, hence the term "crackhead." Now, mind you, this is not an anti-Christian story. In fact, it may turn out to be very spiritual. Who knows where the characters will take us?

Lester rebels against the stringent social restraints placed on him, taking some friends with him and losing some in the process. It is a story of awakening, loyalty, betrayal, and identity formation.

I am posting my story over at Daedalus' Notebook. If you have some time, I would appreciate some comments, critiques, criticisms, and whatever else you would like to say.