Brendan Sheehan

Brendan Sheehan’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia Journal, Complete Sentence, HAD, and Pithead Chapel. He lives in North Jersey, equidistant between Glenn Danzig’s childhood home and the former site of Satriale’s Pork Store.

BOY RACER WILL HAVE HIS REVENGE by Brendan Sheehan

Boy Racer fell from the sky, fully formed. He was born a lanky sixteen-year-old with perfect skin and a tricked-out car. Boy Racer couldn’t remember anything before 1996, the start of his junior year at Santa Carla High. He couldn’t remember buying his car—a purple Maxima with a super wing spoiler, suicide doors, and lime-green underglow. He couldn’t remember choosing his wardrobe—a closet full of wifebeater shirts, Cuban link chains, and Adidas 3-Stripes pants. He couldn’t make sense of why he always smelled of Cool Water cologne or why even after a shower his Caesar cut was still shellacked with…

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