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Erica Lorraine Scheidt

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When I was a kid all I did was write. I dropped out of high school and attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University where I was surrounded by writers and artists.

But then, in my early twenties, I got a job. I worked hard at that job for 15 years and didn't write a word.

Then this happened: I walked into a bookstore and bought two books by Francesca Lia Block. No particular reason, I just liked their covers. Then I read everything she wrote. I read all the YA I could. I still do. I think the world that happens between 13 and 17 is everything.

I quit my job. I studied writing. I spent three and a half years writing Uses for Boys. Now I'm working on a new novel and it's like falling down a hole. Writing my first n...more

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Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

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Quotes by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“And then he hugs me. Really hugs me. Like he thinks that there's only one of me and I'm special and I'm enough for him. Like he doesn't need anything else. Like he was alone and then I came along.”
― Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys

tags: friendship, relationships

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“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.”
― Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys

tags: daughter, missing, mother, mother-daughter, parents, parents-and-children

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“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.”
― Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys

tags: stories

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