Marilyn Manson

Our after-school forays into the cellar became half teenage boys wanting to find pornography to jerk off to and half a morbid fascination with our grandfather

We later deduced that it was aged Vaseline

The seeds of who I am now had been planted

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

just as Neil Ruble had turned me on to rock music, I introduced Tim to heavy metal and bullied him the rest of the time

Maybe it was both, and corruption and enlightenment were inseparable

Michelle Gill, a cute, flat-nosed girl with feathered brown hair and a wide mouth that probably went on to give good blow jobs in high school

Hospitals and bad experiences with women, sexuality and private parts were completely familiar to me by that point in my life.

One of the poorer girls in school, she had a slouched, sunken posture that advertised her insecurity and internal misery, as if she had been abused as a child

renamed her Mary Beth Krueger