Jameson Gregory Bair

The Boy Who Could Dream Underwater Jameson Gregory Bair

Readers, please allow me to introduce you to David Flynt. David is a parent's worst nightmare: A brilliant, defiant boy on the verge of adulthood without a care for his future. He is an island unto himself, a sixteen year old who dreams in vivid color and creates paintings with the precision of a photograph. He's lost faith in his parents' ability to care for him. He's lost his best friend, or perhaps lover, to the call of greener social pastures. And now, David is losing his grip on reality. David has a symbiotic, codependent relationship with his former best friend, Dave. When Dave decided to separate and embrace a new relationship with the cruelest, most popular girl in school, David said good riddance. But without Dave's cutting misanthropy shielding David from the worst impulses of his classmates, in a school where his peers mercilessly bully him, he is exposed and needs to find relief. Looking for said relief in sex and substances yields only more confusion, and his reality becomes intertwined with unconscious nightmares and waking delusions. He questions the institutions that have failed him and doubts the people who wish to save him. The only thing he cares about is getting his friend back, one way or another. His parents, his classmates, his new lover, and his last remaining friend see him on the precipice of catastrophe, but no one, maybe not even David, can stop what's coming. This novel is bildungsroman, young adult for an adult audience, a blend of masculine and feminine voice and a crossover project that touches on horror and fantasy with one foot planted firmly in reality. David's story is a deeply personal inner journey, a family drama reflective of the world at large in all its beauty and turmoil. It is a timeless story, and it is a timely story.