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Blank Confession
Pete Hautman
I killed a dude. That's what the quiet teen says when he calmly walks up to grizzled veteran cop, George Rawls, in the police station.

What follows is a series of flashback and alternating narratives that may...or may not...tell the true events that led up to the murder of a sadistic psychotic drug dealer.

One morning, new student Shayne Blank roars into the school parking lot on a battered motorcycle. Smart, quiet, and not afraid of
anybody, Shayne is mysterious. Nobody can figure out what his story is.

Shayne quickly befriends Mikey, a smart-mouthed, five-foot-nothing bully magnet. Mikey's sister is into bad boys, and her current crush is Jon, a drug-dealing bully. Jon forces Mikey to hold a bag of drugs for safe keeping. Mikey throws the drugs away and now Jon says if Mikey doesn't make restitution ($500), he'll hurt Mikey real bad.