Past Continuous: A Novel

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, Nov 8, 2011 - Young Adult Fiction - 304 pages

Ade Patience has done what he was told he couldn't. He's broken the rules, used his powers to save a life. And no good deed goes unpunished. . . .

Senior year finds Ade and his girlfriend, Vauxhall, deeply in love, indulging themselves with wild dates and exploring their newly strengthened abilities. Only Ade isn't as happy as he should be. He's got an itch that he can't seem to scratch and it has everything to do with his joining the Pandora Crew, a group of radical oracles hell-bent on disturbing the peace, performing Jackass-style stunts, and spreading the mayhem.

When Ade realizes that his involvement with the Pandora Crew is due to his absorbing some of Jimi Ministry's abusive childhood, he discovers that the only way to rid himself of the infectious memories is to erase his past. And it just so happens that the one guy who can do that lives a few blocks down the street.

The procedure works. The "Jimi cancer" is cleared out. But when Ade returns to his life, he finds that changing the past has changed the present. Vauxhall has no idea who he is and he has to woo her all over again. And it won't be easy. There are three other people vying for Vauxhall's attention. Three other guys he has to literally battle to win her back. The worst part: they're all twisted versions of Ade.

Erasing the past has dramatically altered the present and Ade must join forces with his former rival to defeat . . . himself.

 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
5
Section 3
14
Section 4
25
Section 5
28
Section 6
35
Section 7
42
Section 8
52
Section 17
120
Section 18
126
Section 19
132
Section 20
145
Section 21
163
Section 22
179
Section 23
190
Section 24
202

Section 9
58
Section 10
86
Section 11
90
Section 12
92
Section 13
97
Section 14
102
Section 15
110
Section 16
117
Section 25
214
Section 26
233
Section 27
250
Section 28
257
Section 29
276
Section 30
281
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About the author (2011)

K. Ryer Breese lives in Denver and is a critic for American Movie Classics' Filmcritic.com.

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