You’re all just regular students at Albert M Lowry High School, Humboldt County, Nebraska. Except you’re not. Maybe you turn into a wolf on those hot summer nights when the moon sings in the sky; maybe your parents didn’t create you exactly the way you read about in Biology class. Maybe you used to be a loser before you cut a deal with something you met on a snowy night last December under the Humboldt River Bridge. Or maybe you are human, but your boyfriend isn’t, and you’re sure going to love him no matter what.
Either way, you’re trapped in a two-bit town in the middle of nowhere, trying to make something of your life before you find yourself working in the potato dehydration plant or the Barrick Gold mining corp for the rest of your lives, like the old guys you pass on the street every day – like your parents. It’s the Albert M Lowry Science Fair on Monday, though, and with it the prize of a trip to the state finals – in Vegas, baby! Those math club nerds think they’ll win it like every year, but you – and your friends – know better.
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