Flyboy
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After an incident at his school leaves closeted trans teenager Asher Sullivan needing stitches, his mother betrays him in the worst possible wayâshe sends him to Catholic school for his senior year. Now he has to contend with hideous plaid skirts, cranky nuns, and #bathroomJesus.
Nighttime brings an escape for Asher when he dreams of the Midnight Circusâthe one place where he is seen for the boy he truly is. Too bad it exists only in his sleep. At least, thatâs what he believes until the day his annoyingly attractive trapeze rival, Apollo, walks out of his dreams and into his classroom. On the heels of this realization that the magical circus might be real, Asher also learns that his time there is limited.
In his desperation to hang on to the one place he feels at home, Asher sets both worlds on a collision course that could destroy all the relationships he cares about most. Now he must decide how far heâll go to preserve the magical circus, even if it means facing his biggest challenge yetâcoming out.
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Kasey LeBlanc was an Alice Hoffman fellow with GrubStreetâs Novel Incubator program and a finalist for the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence program. He has since been published by WBURâs Cognoscenti, Writer Unboxed, and Them. When not writing, he can be found learning to unicycle and mourning the loss of Bostonâs only flying trapeze school. You can visit him online at kaseyleblanc.com.
