The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

"When I was younger, I had a recurring nightmare about a far off place full of dark things. I remember forcing my eyes open to escape it. As they years passed, the images began to fade and I had the dream less and less. It's like a part of your imagination being over active and never sleeping. As I've grown older I've found myself thinking of it more fondly, trying to remember how these scenes played in my mind and inventing new ones." - Pete Wentz, an excerpt from The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.

Pete Wentz is known for being many things, amoung them, an insomniac. He's been known to report only three hours of sleep a night, and this book goes into what might have been the begining of this part of his life.

Now, being older than he was when he had this nightmare, I found it to be more of an odd story than something to fear. However, I can understand that dreams are scarier in dream land then they are in reality. And therefor, I see why this was a dream turned bad for Pete.

The Boy, a no named (or a name that no one can remember, not even the boy's parents) ugly, stupid, depressed monster in our world feels alone, but still wakes up with a stupid grin on his ugly face every morning. He feels his life is spirlaing down ward, so his parents take him to a psychiatrist.

The doctor perscribes some pills to the boy, and tells him to, basically, drown his sorrows in them. When the boy wakes up after taking a pill, he's in his own world, where the sky is always over cast and there only seem to be four people living there. One of them is a doll with a noose around his neck, and the other tw are sisters Rattail and Flattop.

The boy realizes that he's in love with Rattail, and the sisters and him shoot off flowers as fireworks. As the boy looses his world, he takes another pill to get back, an avoid the world where he's always forgotten. And day after day in his world, something evil is lurking in the shadows.

Somehow, the doctor had found a way into the boy's world as a mutated octopus looking creature. But, if the boy get's the doctor back into reality, will he be dragged back, too? Or will he be able to hang onto his world?

"There is not a siren that can keep me from your window. There is not a pill that can keep you from my mind".

You can find the book on Clandestine Industries.