Ten years ago, when I was starting in the teaching field, students challenged me to write a book about a guy who gets dumped a month before prom.

I welcomed the challenge.

I thought it would be a lot of fun to take it on and to explore what High School was really all about. I went to work and thought about how much fun I could make this book, not only for myself to write, but for others to read.

In the end, what I had written was a fictional tale of my high school experience. I remember it was the most fun I had writing a book.

Then I put it in my drawer and I left it there, hoping to come back to it someday.

My good friend, Thomas Jast, insisted it was fun and I needed to release it at some point. Years later, I took it out of the drawer, read through it, and still loved everything about it.

The writing was different and I was also a different person (slightly matured). I figured I could give this book a facelift and release it.

But every time I went to write it again, I just couldn’t get into the same headspace. I just felt like I was ruining the experience by touching it.

Several times I attempted and several times I failed.

That’s when I decided I was going to give it a light edit and release it as is. After all, the worst thing a writer can do is be a purveyor of their own quality of work. That’s never for them to decide.

I’m proud to share and release this book. For those of you willing to step through the portal, you just may get a glimpse into the headspace of my high school experience.

However, if I’ve done it justice, you also might get a little time warp back into your own.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go buy some Crystal Pepsi and refresh my Dippity-do hair gel supply.

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