Tom Connelly

The Postcard Tom Connelly First edition

The year is 1990. It is a hot August day in upstate New York, and James Bailey has two more days before leaving for college in California. He and his friends are hanging out in a dilapidated plaza parking lot, smoking cigarettes and debating important issues such as metal bands, length of hair, and other daily doings of teenage life in suburbia. Stacey Polanski, an ex-metal chick (now hardcore/punk rocker), arrives at the plaza. She has no cigarettes, but she has a plan: to go to New York City and see her boyfriend?s hardcore band at CBGB. And with nothing else to do in the Hudson Valley, James boards the metro train with Stacey and his friends and heads to New York City for a full day of art and culture. But what James? friends do not know is that he and Stacey share some history: a spontaneous one-night affair?a night seven months ago that silently haunts their friendship.