Shell Out
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Money can buy the world and sell the soul. But can it also buy happiness?
What is the price of making dreams come true? Can they be bought with money, or do they require something worse?
After spending his childhood living in poverty, Greg decides heâs ready for the American Dream: heâll furnish his apartment with lavish items, find the perfect girl to share it with, and become a bigger success than his father has ever been. With the right plan, he can make it all happen.
But as Greg enters college, he discovers that lifeâs nurturing tentacles donât care about his plans, or his dreams. It just wants his money, all of it, and it will stop at nothing to take everything he owns, even his underwear, if it can help it.
Can Greg survive this financial onslaught? Or will life fry his piggy bank into bacon?
Shell Out is the humorous story of a college studentâs battle with those pesky opposing forces that plague us all: life and desire, ambition and contentment, dreams and reality. Itâs the story of anyone whoâs ever had to fend for himself in the real world but wasnât sure if heâd ever make it. Gregâs farcical journey to tame his wallet and fulfill his dreams drags him through the common struggles of young adulthood, like figuring out how to survive a Friday night on a ten-dollar bill, taking jobs that only desperate loons would take, and working toward a better life to win the heart of a girl.
The question is, are his efforts worth it, or is he just chasing yesterdayâs American Dream?
For those thirty and older who wish to remember their own crazy experiences as a twentysomething, Gregâs strange odyssey of economic survival is a comedy. For those currently living the twentysomething life, or are about to approach it, Gregâs journey is a horror story.
Shell Out is a lot like adulthood: a scary comedy that forces us to question our lifeâs ambitions.
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Jeremy Bursey is the author of many short stories, novels, and other things he no longer remembers writing, each covering topics and genres that differ from what he had written previously because why not? He holds a bachelorâs degree in English from the University of Central Florida, which heâs been paying for since the â90s, and currently works as a writing tutor, so he, like that organ grinder who severs his business relationship with his pet monkey, will pay for it indefinitely. He appreciates feedback for anything he posts, and he hopes youâll read itâany of itânow, preferably.
