[ZodWallop]

October by Michael Rowe is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Everyone knows that sixteen-year-old Mikey Childress is “different.” A target for bullies since he was a small boy, everything Mikey does attracts abuse: the way he walks, the way he talks, the way he looks. Everyone knows he’s not like the other boys in the rural town of Auburn—the boys who play hockey, who fight, who pursue girls. Only his friend Wroxy, a girl almost as isolated as he is, can even guess at the edges of his pain, or the depths of his yearning for love. But even the people who hate Mikey couldn’t dream of how badly he could hurt them if he wanted to...Until the night Mikey is pushed beyond endurance by his abusers. The night he makes a pact with dark forces older than time to have terrible vengeance on his enemies. The night he inadvertently opens a doorway that should never have been opened, and unleashes something into the world that should have remained damned.