Chapter 5: I Wasn't Born with Enough Middle Fingers Summary and Analysis

Brian spent the first year in his new home in Florida lonely and without friends. He wrote a lot during that time but was unable to sell any of his work. He attended Broward College where he took journalism and theater and worked as a night manager at a local record store. He was fired a short time after being hired for shirking his duties. He had been stealing from the store but had not been caught for that. Brian lied to the publishers of a new magazine called "25th Parallel" by claiming to have a background in journalism. They hired him as their senior editor. Brian wrote entertainment and horror fiction articles for the magazine.

Brian fell in love with a beautiful girl named Rachelle. After...