{"id":533085,"date":"2018-11-26T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=533085"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:21:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:21:45","slug":"urbantasm-a-novel-book-one-the-dying-city-by-connor-coyne-a-novel-of-wonder-and-horror-william-shunn-author-of-the-accidental-terrorist-www-urbantasm-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/urbantasm-a-novel-book-one-the-dying-city-by-connor-coyne-a-novel-of-wonder-and-horror-william-shunn-author-of-the-accidental-terrorist-www-urbantasm-com\/","title":{"rendered":"URBANTASM. a novel. BOOK ONE: The Dying City. By Connor Coyne. &#8220;A novel of wonder and horror.&#8221; &#8211; William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist. www.urbantasm.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">URBANTASM. a novel. BOOK ONE: The Dying City. By Connor Coyne. &#8220;A novel of wonder and horror.&#8221; &#8211; William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantasm.com\">www.urbantasm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-533086 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/urbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/urbb.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/urbb-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/connorcoyne\">FACEBOOK<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connorcoyne\">TWITTER<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/connorryancoyne\/\">INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4218298.Connor_Coyne\">GOODREADS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCr1i0I4txsDOt-MC4ctBVFQ\">YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Urbantasm (a novel) by Connor Coyne (YA, Fantasy)<br \/>\nUrbantasm: Book One The Dying City is a magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author\u2019s experiences growing up in and around Flint, MI. Thirteen-year-old John Bridge\u2019s plans include hooking up with an eighth-grade girl and becoming one of the most popular kids at Radcliffe Junior High, but when he steals a pair of strange blue sunglasses from a homeless person, it drops him into the middle of a gang war overwhelming the once-great Rust Belt town of Akawe. John doesn\u2019t understand why the sunglasses are such a big deal, but everything, it seems, is on the table. Perhaps he accidentally offended the Chalks, a white supremacist gang trying to expand across the city. Maybe the feud involves his friend Selby, whose father died under mysterious circumstances. It could even have something to do with O-Sugar, a homegrown drug with the seeming ability to distort space. On the night before school began, a group of teenagers took O-Sugar and leapt to their deaths from an abandoned hospital. John struggles to untangle these mysteries while adjusting to his new school, even as his parents confront looming unemployment and as his city fractures and burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URBANTASM. a novel. BOOK ONE: The Dying City. 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