Line & Verse — The Complete Freshman Year
A Southern campus novel about belonging, secrecy, and becoming.
Over the past year, I’ve been serializing Line & Verse here — one chapter at a time, following Ethan’s first year at Westmore College.
Today, the complete freshman-year edition is available as a collected e-book.
The serialized chapters will remain here. But this edition brings the full arc together in one place — revised, tightened, and shaped intentionally as a single narrative. What begins with orientation and initiation moves through exhaustion, secrecy, desire, collapse, and finally something steadier: the beginning of self-possession.
At its core, Line & Verse is a story about belonging — and what it costs. About masculinity as performance. About ritual, silence, and the quiet moments that undo both. It traces the space between who we pretend to be and who we slowly allow ourselves to become.
If you’ve been reading along, this is the definitive freshman-year volume.
The e-book is available on Amazon here:
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Paid subscribers have received a complimentary copy as a thank-you for supporting the project early. I’m deeply grateful to those who’ve been here from the beginning.
This is only Year One.
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Caleb Reed