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Sending Jack Off To Jesus (A Southern Thing) (2014)

by Samuel York

Series: A Southern Thing (2)

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Jack Miller has more than he could ask for with Andrew as his boyfriend, but it's being taken away from him and there isn't anything he can do. His father knows he's gay, and his mother wants him to have sex with a girl to make sure he's not mistaken. Andrew Collins has found the perfect home in foster care with Cole and Melinda Kemp, but it won't last. The DA thinks his parents have proven they've changed, but Andrew doesn't believe the change will last. Just when Jack and Andrew think it can't get any worse, it does. Jack's father sends him to New Life Christian Camp, a program that promises to pray the gay away. But Andrew has it worse as his father takes out his anger on him, leaving him near death. Both Jack and Andrew are lost to each other, their lives in tatters all because their parents wanted to pray the gay away.… (more)
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If anything, the situation in this second installment of Jack and Andrew's story gets worse. Both the boys' parents react badly to discovering they are boyfriends, and even though Andrew has a short reprieve in foster care, the stupidity of the system and the people in charge of assessing whether Andrew's parents have "changed their ways (as if abusers and bigots ever do!) made me scream in anger. Imagine what kids like Jack and Andrew go through! Helpless in the clutches of their abusers all they can do is try t endure, and hope to survive.

The realism of this story is heartbreaking and made me more angry than I can say - at parents who don't accept their children, at a system that is supposed to protect them - and utterly fails in so many cases, and at a world that looks on and doesn't seem to care. Yes, this is fiction, but unfortunately it isn't fantasy!
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2022 - self publ. under authorname Samuel York and title Jack and Andrew: Pain
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Jack Miller has more than he could ask for with Andrew as his boyfriend, but it's being taken away from him and there isn't anything he can do. His father knows he's gay, and his mother wants him to have sex with a girl to make sure he's not mistaken. Andrew Collins has found the perfect home in foster care with Cole and Melinda Kemp, but it won't last. The DA thinks his parents have proven they've changed, but Andrew doesn't believe the change will last. Just when Jack and Andrew think it can't get any worse, it does. Jack's father sends him to New Life Christian Camp, a program that promises to pray the gay away. But Andrew has it worse as his father takes out his anger on him, leaving him near death. Both Jack and Andrew are lost to each other, their lives in tatters all because their parents wanted to pray the gay away.

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Jack Miller has more than he could ask for with Andrew as his boyfriend, but it's being taken away from him and there isn't anything he can do. His father knows he's gay, and his mother wants him to have sex with a girl to make sure he's not mistaken.

Andrew Collins has found the perfect home in foster care with Cole and Melinda Kemp, but it won't last. The DA thinks his parents have proven they've changed, but Andrew doesn't believe the change will last.

Just when Jack and Andrew think it can't get any worse, it does. Jack's father sends him to New Life Christian Camp, a program that promises to pray the gay away. But Andrew has it worse than Jack as Andrew's father takes out his anger on him, leaving Andrew near death.

Both Jack and Andrew are lost to each other, their lives in tatters all because their parents wanted to pray the gay away.

Warning: This book contains graphic details, including abuse by physical abuse by adults. [smashwords]
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