Book 5: l(a

Named for the famous poem by ee cummings, l(a highlights one of the loneliest places Jed will ever be in his life. 

Sis (the likely love of his life) moved away to be with her boyfriend, Amy (Jed’s actual girlfriend) has been committed, his friends have all moved away for college, and because of the social security he receives from his father’s death (either accidental or suicide, we don’t know), Jed actually makes more money sitting in his adopted home than if he had a job. 

This loneliness culminates in an event that exiles him from his second home forever.  While searching for another place to live, Jed stumbles across some revelations involving his thought-to-be sainted mother and thought-to-be useless father. 

Issue 1: Jed, a stick figure in a world or flesh, has been kicked out of his friend's parents' house (he was living there because he had been kicked out of his dad's house a few years back) for some unknown - yet we assume awful - reason. After much debate with himself, he decides to take a bus to Lower Anjil, the town where he lived with his dad a few years ago, to see his old friend Dave. Once he gets to Dave's house, after a quick chat with some crazy old coot, he finds that Dave no longer lives there. Instead, there is an old woman by the name of Mona. She offers to find Dave's address in exchange for some company.