Apologies for falling behind on these - the flurry of putting together the short fiction contest followed by a brief touch of influenza.
Richard Grayson is an author with a voice. He has developed it over time and through the writing and publishing of hundreds of stories and it seems to flow from him effortlessly. The voice is a first person narrator from Brooklyn. Always sort of an underdog, a smaller male, bookish, doing okay with the women, doesn't seem to have a ton of male friends, but is successful to at least some scale.
Since developing a taste for this particular type of narrator, I've not one single time been disappointed by a Richard Grayson story and that streak continues with this effort found in Me Three. The three scenes from the narrator's life include one from high school, one from about five years later, and the last is after another eight years passes. In each scene, there is a reference to, or an appearance by, Truman Capote.
Besides the very consistent voice, Grayson is also a great capturer of small, sometimes seemingly odd, details. In the opening paragraph he refers to the headmaster's office as the cigar box due to the wood paneling on all four walls; later he comments on his blazer's buttons, basketball trophies, and worsted slacks. All of which fit right in place with his story and take the reader a bit beyond the standard plot.
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