Bird Boy
Horror, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Commercial Fiction.
(Think CARRIE meets MY LEFT FOOT)
“He sent a sliver of thought deep inside his brother’s skull, where even a talented and experienced neurosurgeon would think twice about going.
Hey, almost forgot to put out the lights.
Then he severed his brother’s optic nerves.”
(Think CARRIE meets MY LEFT FOOT)
“He sent a sliver of thought deep inside his brother’s skull, where even a talented and experienced neurosurgeon would think twice about going.
Hey, almost forgot to put out the lights.
Then he severed his brother’s optic nerves.”
Life ain’t easy for a boy named Dov. Fourteen years after his mother dies giving birth to him, his father still mourns from inside a bottle. And his steroid-abusing big brother blames him for her death, dishing out daily helpings of pain. All Dov Halek wants is for the bullying and torture to stop. But his brother has other plans.
He stages an ‘accident’ that leaves Dov totally paralyzed and condemned to spending his life on a respirator. Months later, when a large housefly buzzes into his hospital room, Dov discovers he can hold it motionless in the air with his thoughts. Excited, he tries to exercise and strengthen his new-found abilities, eventually showing off for his girlfriend by lifting her and the heavy chair on which she sits - with just his mind. His growing powers also give him the ability to communicate telepathically. Both of which could mean a small measure of independence and self-sufficiency.
Not to mention a little payback.
Dov lures his brother to the hospital and without lifting a finger, he breaks every bone in his tormenter’s body. But as his strength continues to grow, so does his compulsion to control everything around him, driving him to kill one of his nurses and the Sheriff, who is getting too close. Then, dozens more. Dov has mutated from a likable teenage abuse victim into a murderous quadriplegic who must be stopped.
But when that monster can read your thoughts and crush you from clear across town, the question is -- how?