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Ugly

Written by: Mark A. Roeder
Narrated by: Joe DiNozzi
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Julian is ugly. He knows it. Everyone knows it. He is also a boy with secrets. He's gay, his family owns the local funeral home, and he's not certain which secret he more desperately desires to keep. Julian is a wallflower, but tries out for the soccer team to please his father. Beyond all hope, he makes the team - and there he meets boys who change his life forever and a coach he suspects is trying to kill him.

Julian's greatest love is music. He slips off at lunch and after school to play the grand piano in the music room. His music attracts the attention of a secret admirer and for the first time ever someone sees beauty in Julian - his music.

The tragic death of teammates forces Julian to realize that he might not have as much time as he believed and leads him to take a desperate chance. Julian is determined to stop sitting on the sidelines of life. Friendship and love is worth any risk.

©2014 Mark A. Roeder (P)2015 Mark A. Roeder Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction
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This story is set in 1980, and revolves around a closeted 15 year old boy and his high school soccer team. There is no sex in the story, fyi.

It truly captured how I felt being closeted in high school between 1999-2003, so don't let the time period throw you off. There is nothing "dated" in the story.

The narration is very well performed. I started listening to this on Sunday evening, and finished Monday evening because I couldn't stop thinking about the story and what was going to happen next!

I was slightly disappointed with the ending, mainly because I wanted it to continue, but ultimately very happy with how things went.

A VERY good listen

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