1999

1999

NEW NOVEL COMING SOON: Nineteen Ninety-Nine - A psychosexual tale of teenage obsession...

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Timothy Atkinson
Dec 02, 2025

In the early days of the post-Columbine summer of 1999, Martin Ogilvie, a sensitive but troubled sixteen-year-old with a penchant for heavy metal music and horror movies, and Leah Sakellarion, his more affluent, Adderall-popping, sexually promiscuous best friend, find their lives upended when Martin develops an obsession with a beautiful, slightly older woman named Clarissa Tibbits who has just moved into the house where his father committed suicide. Leah, who harbors her own romantic feelings for Martin, insists Clarissa is out of his league—that he should instead pursue someone with whom he has more in common – like her, for instance. But Martin ignores Leah’s misgivings and embarks on a relentless quest to make Clarissa fall in love with him, no matter how deadly the consequences. A lurid and disturbing portrait of pre-millennium adolescence that is not for the squeamish or faint of heart, just keep repeating:

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it’s only a novel…

it’s only a novel…

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