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The Deep End of the Pool

Dean Backus

Someone is abusing Shannon...and the abuser is his girlfriend. High school ‎swimming star Shannon "Shan" Milne is looking forward to starting his junior ‎year at the prestigious Jefferson Academy, and putting behind the baggage and ‎nightmares of his childhood. His new friends, Zip and Sonya, seem like they'll be ‎good allies for him as well. But then Shan meets beautiful Kallie Corcoran...a girl ‎who isn't used to hearing the word "no." And Kallie wants Shan to be her A-list ‎boyfriend, and isolates him from anyone she doesn't feel worthy of his time. It ‎isn't long before Shan is being psychologically and physically abused by Kallie, ‎and ensnared by her wealthy, powerful family - a family with a great many dark ‎secrets. Can Shan's friends ultimately rescue him from Kallie's net? Or will he ‎continue to sink into darkness...in the deep end of the pool?‎

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ABOUT DEAN BACKUS


Dean Backus is the author or co-author of over ‎eleven plays, one of which (‘Thus with a Kiss') was ‎runner-up for Best Play at the 1993 Seattle New ‎Playwrights Festival, and another (‘Is This Seat ‎Taken?') winning Best Play at the 1996 San ‎Francisco Fringe Festival. He appeared in Alyson's ‎‎1998 anthology ‘Wilma Loves Betty', and was ‎featured in the book ‘Gay Marriage Real Life' ‎‎(2006) by Michelle Bates Deakin. His YA novel, ‎‎‘Darts and Flowers', was published in 2022 by ‎Torchflame Books. He lives outside of Portland, ‎Oregan with his partner, Jonathan. Find him at ‎www.deanbackusauthor.com.‎