Blood of the Son

By Erick Penny

It started with a website. Then, Ezhno Blackstone would write a book to tell his story to a broader audience in a more official way, but his honesty upset his family, so he would neuter the story and scrubbed all offensive truth to appease them. He would spend the next fifteen years writing and rewriting his story, trying to make it something he liked. But nothing worked. Sanitized as it was, it wasn't his story anymore. Eventually, Ezhno would give up on the story, and writing, all together.

This is where I enter the picture. And I would work with Ezhno to restore his original story. A tale of pain, betrayal, and fanatics. Religious extremism, megachurches, and a boy trying to grow up among them without sharing their faith. Death, hatred, and adolescence. And a search for a place to call home.

But it was a home he never found. Oh, he thought he had, but when the Columbine Massacre happened in 1999, Adalburo and its high school, East Oleander, turned on him. He favored dark colors and wore a trenchcoat, and they felt like that was all the reason he needed to be like the Columbine shooters, and that he was going to come in guns blazing.
He was feared, avoided, assaulted, and accused at every turn. Rumors flew, and everything he thought was so wonderful about that place soured and twisted against him. As such, when he graduated later that year, Ezhno took off.

But there is a lot of time unaccounted for between that moment in 1999, and now. And just because high school was over, it did not mean that Ezhno's troubles were over as well. Far from it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4DJ98XY
• ISBN13: 9798317347833
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"