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Excerpt: Out of Order, A Bisexual Thriller by Casey Lawrence

A teaser for my bisexual YA thriller, JMS Books 2023

Dr. Casey Lawrence
Prism & Pen
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7 min readMay 20, 2023

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Promotional image for Out of Order by Casey Lawrence, created using Canva

My YA novel Out of Order was first published in 2015 with Dreamspinner Press. After a prolonged period of being out of print, I am excited to be rereleasing the book, along with two sequels, with JMS Books in 2023.

Please enjoy the following excerpt. It was hard to choose a scene without too many spoilers, but I quite like this one.

“Come here.”

Kate hopped obediently over to me and put her foot under the ice-cold stream, leaning against the wall with one hand for balance. “This place gives me the heebie-jeebies,” she said, wrapping her other arm around herself and shivering. She was dressed in tiny jean shorts and a crop top over her bathing suit, midriff exposed. “This is the place where horror movies start.”

Her blood circled the drain in the middle of the room slowly. It seemed to suck and gurgle almost ominously, as though some horror-movie sludge were about to splutter from it.

I laughed it off as I crouched down on the rough concrete floor, careful to not actually sit. The thought of people’s bare feet on the floor and all the bacteria and fungi that could be transferred that way…

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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