Inconvenient Things

Book excerpt: Between September and December of the year 2000, Sebastian James Preiss kept a very in-depth journal.Sebastian is a shore-boy. His father earns more in a month than most families earn in a year. For his eighteenth birthday, he got a brand new black BMW. His mother doesn't work - instead she plays tennis and alternates between various prescription drugs.However, you shouldn't hold all that against him. What you should hold against him is the fact that he's a self-serving, bitter misanthrope with little better to do than play games with people's minds. With an ego like Sebastian's... given enough time, and an interaction with precisely the wrong kind of girl, things are bound to come collapsing down.Consider this an anti-romance.