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* RealPersonCameo: Stephen Bissette, of all people, as the editor who receives Trevor's ''Birdland'' comic. (Bissette is probably best known currently for his work on [[Creator/AlanMoore Alan Moore's]] ''Comicbook/SwampThing''.)

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* RealPersonCameo: Stephen Bissette, of all people, as the editor who receives Trevor's ''Birdland'' comic. (Bissette is probably best known currently for his work on [[Creator/AlanMoore Alan Moore's]] ''Comicbook/SwampThing''.''Comicbook/SwampThing'' and as co-creator of [[Characters/HellBlazerJohnConstantine John Constantine]].)
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* HippieParents: Rosena [=McGee=] is from the peaceful, flower-power school of counterculture, while Travis is the darker, more cynical, fight-the-system drug-addicted one, but both identify as hippies and raise their kids accordingly.


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* JoblessParentDrama: At the book's opening, Travis [=McGee=] has been in a creative slump and is no longer able to support the family with his art, leaving Rosena to eke out an insufficient living as an artist's model.
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* DemotedToExtra: Steve and Ghost of ''Literature/LostSouls'' are said to be on tour for the entirety of the book. They send a postcard, though.

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* DemotedToExtra: Steve and Ghost of ''Literature/LostSouls'' ''Literature/LostSouls1992'' are said to be on tour for the entirety of the book. They send a postcard, though.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bobby [=McGee=] is clearly based on Creator/RobertCrumb, an underground cartoonist with a deep and abiding love of Music/{{Jazz}}.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bobby [=McGee=] is clearly based on Creator/RobertCrumb, an underground cartoonist with a deep and abiding love of Music/{{Jazz}}.{{jazz}}.
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-->I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
* YaoiGuys: Zach and Trevor.

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-->I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
* YaoiGuys: Zach and Trevor.
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: Zach's beloved black Mustang. It's improbable considering he's outwardly unemployed, but not so much when you know the secret of his ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount (see above). [[spoiler:In the climax, Eddy takes the Mustang as compensation for helping Zach and Trevor flee town.]]
** Contrasted with the [=McGee=]'s [[TheAllegedCar alleged car]], which opens the story by conking out and stranding them in Missing Mile.
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Zach's hacking skills mean that whenever he needs money, he can alter his bank account to whatever amount he happens to require (a favor he bestows on Edie before leaving town). He seldom needs cash for anything other than day-to-day expenses, considering he's also hacked the utility companies (a favor he bestows upon Kinsey). The combination means that even when he's living out of his car, he's loaded.

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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Zach's hacking skills mean that whenever he needs money, he can alter his bank account to whatever amount he happens to require (a favor he bestows on Edie Eddy before leaving town). He seldom needs cash for anything other than day-to-day expenses, considering he's also hacked the utility companies (a favor he bestows upon Kinsey). The combination means that even when he's living out of his car, he's loaded.
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* DrivingQuestion: Why did Trevor's father kill his family and himself? [[spoiler: Even after confronting him, Trevor never gets an answer.]]


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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bobby [=McGee=] is clearly based on Creator/RobertCrumb, an underground cartoonist with a deep and abiding love of Music/{{Jazz}}.
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** Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed." This is in contrast to Zach, who MustHaveCaffeine.

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** Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor Zach has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed." This is in contrast to Zach, Trevor, who MustHaveCaffeine.
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Zach's hacking skills mean that whenever he needs money, he can alter his bank account to whatever amount he happens to require (a favor he bestows on Edie before leaving town). He seldom needs cash for anything other than day-to-day expenses, considering he's also hacked the utility companies (a favor he bestows upon Kinsey). The combination means that even when he's living out of his car, he's loaded.


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* OrphanageOfFear: Trevor grew up in various state group homes, where he was bullied (and at one point [[AttemptedRape nearly sexually assaulted]]) by the other kids. The homes themselves were horrific only for their indifference and unfairness (for example, Trevor was punished for defending himself from the kid who tried to molest him).
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* StableTimeLoop: Trevor inadvertently creates one when [[spoiler: his out-of-body experience causes him to travel back to the night of the murders, where he interrupts Bobby before Bobby can murder Trevor's younger self. Return to reality, [[GoMadFromTheRealization the realization that]] ''[[GoMadFromTheRealization he]]'' [[GoMadFromTheRealization was the reason he was spared death pushes him over the edge.]]]]

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* StableTimeLoop: Trevor inadvertently creates one when [[spoiler: his out-of-body experience causes him to travel back to the night of the murders, where he interrupts Bobby before Bobby can murder Trevor's younger self. Return Upon returning to reality, [[GoMadFromTheRealization the realization that]] ''[[GoMadFromTheRealization he]]'' [[GoMadFromTheRealization was the reason he was spared death pushes him over the edge.]]]]
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* MurderSuicide: Robert [=McGee=] kills his wife and one of his sons, then hangs himself, leaving Trevor behind.

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* MurderSuicide: Robert [=McGee=] kills his wife and one of his sons, younger son, then hangs himself, leaving Trevor behind.
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* BiTheWay: Zach is stated to be bisexual with a preference for men.
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* StableTimeLoop: Trevor inadvertently creates one when [[spoiler: his out-of-body experience causes him to travel back to the night of the murders, where he interrupts Bobby before Bobby can murder Trevor's younger self. Return to reality, [[GoMadFromTheRealization the realization that ''he'' was the reason he was spared death pushes him over the edge.]]]]

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* StableTimeLoop: Trevor inadvertently creates one when [[spoiler: his out-of-body experience causes him to travel back to the night of the murders, where he interrupts Bobby before Bobby can murder Trevor's younger self. Return to reality, [[GoMadFromTheRealization the realization that ''he'' that]] ''[[GoMadFromTheRealization he]]'' [[GoMadFromTheRealization was the reason he was spared death pushes him over the edge.]]]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A local voodoo priestess advises Eddy to write Agent Cover's name on an egg to make him leave her alone. For the rest of the book, whenever Cover is about to investigate a new lead that might take him to Eddy, he suffers a mysteriously egg-related mishap.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A local voodoo priestess gris-gris vendor advises Eddy to write Agent Cover's name on an egg to make him leave her alone. For the rest of the book, whenever Cover is about to investigate a new lead that might take him to Eddy, he suffers a mysteriously egg-related mishap.

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* GRatedDrug: Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed." This is in contrast to Zach, who MustHaveCaffeine.

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Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed." This is in contrast to Zach, who MustHaveCaffeine.MustHaveCaffeine.
** When Zach and Trevor arrive in [[spoiler:Birdland]] they finds the local drug of choice is...tea, which is smoked like marijuana. (Skeletal Sammy's drug of choice, on the other hand, is a bit more PG-13: he gets a high from injecting human blood.)
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* GRatedDrug: Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed."

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* GRatedDrug: Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed."" This is in contrast to Zach, who MustHaveCaffeine.
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* GRatedDrug: Of the many, many (many) drugs that appear in the novel, Trevor has an extremely adverse reaction to caffeine, which affects him like "bad speed."
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* StableTimeLoop: Trevor inadvertently creates one when [[spoiler: his out-of-body experience causes him to travel back to the night of the murders, where he interrupts Bobby before Bobby can murder Trevor's younger self. Return to reality, [[GoMadFromTheRealization the realization that ''he'' was the reason he was spared death pushes him over the edge.]]]]

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* NoNudityTaboo: Zach is surprised (and intrigued) when Trevor, who he has known for all of a day, strips for a bath in front of him, but reasons that Trevor's probably pretty casual about being naked in front of other people due to growing up in group homes.


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* ShamelessFanserviceGuy: Zach is surprised (and intrigued) when Trevor, who he has known for all of a day, strips for a bath in front of him, but reasons that Trevor's probably pretty casual about being naked in front of other people due to growing up in group homes.

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After twenty years of questions, SurvivorGuilt, and self-loathing, artist Trevor [=McGee=] returns to the house on Violin Road where his father murdered Trevor's mother and younger brother before killing himself. The mystery of Trevor's life is why his father spared him from the massacre, and he hopes that by coming back, he will find the answer. What he finds instead is a wily computer hacker named Zachary Bosch, currently on the run from the Feds and with plenty of family demons of his own. Together the two explore the abandoned house, which seems to be all too aware of their presence, taunting them with indecipherable messages and ominous threats. In spite of the growing danger, and much to their own surprise, Trevor and Zach find themselves falling in love for the first time in their troubled lives.

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After twenty years of questions, SurvivorGuilt, and self-loathing, artist Trevor [=McGee=] returns to the house on Violin Road where [[PaterFamilicide his father murdered Trevor's mother and younger brother brother]] before killing himself. The mystery of Trevor's life is why his father spared him from the massacre, and he hopes that by coming back, he will find the answer.

What he finds instead is [[TheCracker a wily computer hacker hacker]] named Zachary Bosch, currently on the run from the Feds and with plenty of family demons of his own. Together the two explore the abandoned house, which seems to be [[GeniusLoci all too aware of their presence, taunting presence]] and taunts them with indecipherable messages and ominous threats. In spite of the growing danger, and much to their own surprise, Trevor and Zach find themselves falling in love for the first time in their troubled lives.


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* TheBartender: Kinsey's lifelong dream has been to open a club as a refuge for the kids of Missing Mile. The only time he gets really serious is whenever anyone does anything that jeopardizes it...such as underage Zach trying to score beer.


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* CaughtInTheRain: Played with, as Trevor and Zach dash out ''into'' the rain, rather than seeking shelter from it, but the experience leads to them acknowledging their attraction.


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* ElectricLove: On the only occasion they have ever kissed, [[spoiler:Eddy feels electricity running from her lips straight to her crotch. The narration even compares Zach preparing to put his lips to hers with someone carefully connecting jumper cables to a car battery.]]


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* NoNudityTaboo: Zach is surprised (and intrigued) when Trevor, who he has known for all of a day, strips for a bath in front of him, but reasons that Trevor's probably pretty casual about being naked in front of other people due to growing up in group homes.
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* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Trevor agrees to run away to Jamaica with Zach and live in hiding from the Feds for the rest of their lives.]] They've known each other for a ''week'', and most of that week was spent [[spoiler:with Trevor slowly going murderously insane]]. Slightly zig-zagged in that they are never legally married, simply because [[spoiler:same-sex marriage was a far-off dream at the time and Jamaicas less than kind laws and social stigma surrounding gay men/male relationships]].

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* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Trevor agrees to run away to Jamaica with Zach and live in hiding from the Feds for the rest of their lives.]] They've known each other for a ''week'', and most of that week was spent [[spoiler:with Trevor slowly going murderously insane]]. Slightly zig-zagged in that they are never legally married, simply because [[spoiler:same-sex marriage was a far-off dream at the time and Jamaicas less than kind (and Jamaica's less-than-kind laws and social stigma surrounding gay men/male relationships]].men and male relationships)]].
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* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Trevor agrees to run away to Jamaica with Zach and live in hiding from the Feds for the rest of their lives.]] They've known each other for a ''week'', and most of that week was spent [[spoiler:with Trevor slowly going murderously insane]]. Slightly zig-zagged in that they are never legally married, simply because [[spoiler:same-sex marriage was a far-off dream at the time]].

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* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Trevor agrees to run away to Jamaica with Zach and live in hiding from the Feds for the rest of their lives.]] They've known each other for a ''week'', and most of that week was spent [[spoiler:with Trevor slowly going murderously insane]]. Slightly zig-zagged in that they are never legally married, simply because [[spoiler:same-sex marriage was a far-off dream at the time]].time and Jamaicas less than kind laws and social stigma surrounding gay men/male relationships]].

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* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Eddy is devastated when Zach, who has refused to fall in love for twenty years, finally does...but not with her. Nevertheless she risks her freedom to distract the Feds while Zach and Trevor sneak out of town.]]



* [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Stripper With a Heart of Gold]]: Eddy.

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* [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Stripper With a Heart of Gold]]: Eddy.Eddy, cynical stripper by day, is deep down a genuinely caring person and devoted friend (with a side of ToughLove).
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After twenty years, Trevor [=McGee=] returns to the house on Violin road, where his father murdered his mother and younger brother before killing himself. The mystery of Trevor's life is why his father spared him from the massacre, and he hopes that by coming back, he will find the answer. What he finds is a wily computer hacker named Zachary Bosch, currently on the run from the feds and with plenty of family demons of his own. Together the two explore the house...but much to their surprise, they find themselves falling in love for the first time in their troubled lives.

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After twenty years, years of questions, SurvivorGuilt, and self-loathing, artist Trevor [=McGee=] returns to the house on Violin road, Road where his father murdered his Trevor's mother and younger brother before killing himself. The mystery of Trevor's life is why his father spared him from the massacre, and he hopes that by coming back, he will find the answer. What he finds instead is a wily computer hacker named Zachary Bosch, currently on the run from the feds Feds and with plenty of family demons of his own. Together the two explore the house...but abandoned house, which seems to be all too aware of their presence, taunting them with indecipherable messages and ominous threats. In spite of the growing danger, and much to their own surprise, they Trevor and Zach find themselves falling in love for the first time in their troubled lives.

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''Drawing Blood'' is a 1993 horror novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite. A computer hacker named Zachary Bosch is on the run. He makes it to Missing Mile, where cartoonist Trevor [=McGee=] has come home to face his demons. Trevor's family all died in his old family home, and it seems like the house wants to claim him, too.

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''Drawing Blood'' is a 1993 horror novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite. A

After twenty years, Trevor [=McGee=] returns to the house on Violin road, where his father murdered his mother and younger brother before killing himself. The mystery of Trevor's life is why his father spared him from the massacre, and he hopes that by coming back, he will find the answer. What he finds is a wily
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only rule is that every true artist must kill the thing he loves.

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* BiTheWay: Zach is stated to be bisexual, with a slight preference for men.
* HauntedHouse

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* BiTheWay: Zach is stated to be bisexual, bisexual with a slight preference for men.
* HauntedHouseBoyishShortHair: Underneath her blonde working wig, Eddy has a black, spiky buzzcut.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Birdland, which is based on the world of Trevor's father's comics. Verges on an EldritchLocation.
* DemotedToExtra: Steve and Ghost of ''Literature/LostSouls'' are said to be on tour for the entirety of the book. They send a postcard, though.
* DreadlockRasta: Dougal St. Clair is an easy-going weed-dealer who wears Rasta and Mardi Gras colors in his long dreads and who calls everyone "irie" and "mon."
* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Trevor agrees to run away to Jamaica with Zach and live in hiding from the Feds for the rest of their lives.]] They've known each other for a ''week'', and most of that week was spent [[spoiler:with Trevor slowly going murderously insane]]. Slightly zig-zagged in that they are never legally married, simply because [[spoiler:same-sex marriage was a far-off dream at the time]].
* HauntedHouse: The house on Violin Road, which may have been haunted even before the [=McGees=] arrived.



* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: [[spoiler:When they appear in Birdland,]] both Trev and Zach find themselves wearing awesome vintage 1940s-style suits. As Zach notes, "[[spoiler:Birdland]] might fuck with you at every turn, but at least you got to dress cool."
* InspectorJavert: Agent Cover takes Zach's case ''very'' personally.
* MadArtist: Both Robert and Trevor [=McGee=] seem to believe that their art is either driving them mad or only barely keeping them sane.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A local voodoo priestess advises Eddy to write Agent Cover's name on an egg to make him leave her alone. For the rest of the book, whenever Cover is about to investigate a new lead that might take him to Eddy, he suffers a mysteriously egg-related mishap.



* ReallyGetsAround: Zach, who at one point even uses sex to pay for his convenience store run.
* RealPersonCameo: Stephen Bissette, of all people, as the editor who receives Trevor's ''Birdland'' comic. (Bissette is probably best known currently for his work on [[Creator/AlanMoore Alan Moore's]] ''Comicbook/SwampThing''.)
* RedOniBlueOni: Fiery, determined Eddy plays Red Oni to Dougal's more laidback Blue Oni. (With a slightly different dynamic, extroverted, thrill-seeking Zach is Red Oni to Trevor's introverted, brooding Blue Oni.)



* TheStoner: Zach in particular. Brite said he rarely put down the bong while writing this book.

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* TheStoner: Zach in particular. Brite particular, although Dougal St. Clair also seems to feel that all problems can be solved with pot. (Brite himself has said he rarely put down the bong while writing this book.)
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''Lost Souls'' is a 1993 horror novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite. A computer hacker named Zachary Bosch is on the run. He makes it to Missing Mile, where cartoonist Trevor [=McGee=] has come home to face his demons. Trevor's family all died in his old family home, and it seems like the house wants to claim him, too.

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''Lost Souls'' ''Drawing Blood'' is a 1993 horror novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite. A computer hacker named Zachary Bosch is on the run. He makes it to Missing Mile, where cartoonist Trevor [=McGee=] has come home to face his demons. Trevor's family all died in his old family home, and it seems like the house wants to claim him, too.
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''Lost Souls'' is a 1993 horror novel by Creator/PoppyZBrite. A computer hacker named Zachary Bosch is on the run. He makes it to Missing Mile, where cartoonist Trevor [=McGee=] has come home to face his demons. Trevor's family all died in his old family home, and it seems like the house wants to claim him, too.

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!!Tropes used in this novel include:

* AbusiveParents: Zach's father beat him repeatedly with his belt. Trevor's, [[ArchnemesisDad well...]]
* AcidTripDimension: Birdland, which is accessed by the characters through drug use.
* AlcoholicParent: Robert [=McGee=]'s lapse in sanity coincides with his DescentIntoAddiction.
* BiTheWay: Zach is stated to be bisexual, with a slight preference for men.
* HauntedHouse
* HopelessSuitor: Zach rejects Eddy's advances repeatedly. It's made clear that this isn't a case of IncompatibleOrientation, Zach just [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship "likes her too much"]] to sleep with her.
* MurderSuicide: Robert [=McGee=] kills his wife and one of his sons, then hangs himself, leaving Trevor behind.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Trevor can drink a couple of pots in one sitting.
* OrphansOrdeal: Trevor's has lasted twenty years.
* TheRunaway: Zach is The Abused Runaway, leaving home as a young teenager.
* SelfHarm: Trevor has a number of self-harm scars.
* TheStoner: Zach in particular. Brite said he rarely put down the bong while writing this book.
* [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Stripper With a Heart of Gold]]: Eddy.
* TitleDrop:
-->I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
* YaoiGuys: Zach and Trevor.

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