FULL LENGTH: Set in 2016, IRL explores the lives of five teenagers as they navigate adolescence and friendships during peak edgy internet culture. A piece about Gen-Z's youth that involves cyberbullying, catfishing, and chronically being online.
FULL LENGTH: Set in 2016, IRL explores the lives of five teenagers as they navigate adolescence and friendships during peak edgy internet culture. A piece about Gen-Z's youth that involves cyberbullying, catfishing, and chronically being online.
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Matt Pelfrey:
IRL
by Matthew Alan Craig
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IRL burns with ruthless adolescent turmoil and confusion. You just hope some of the characters will make it through the carnage.
IRL burns with ruthless adolescent turmoil and confusion. You just hope some of the characters will make it through the carnage.
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Jocelyn Price:
IRL
by Matthew Alan Craig
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There's something so raw and striking about Matthew Alan Craig's style. 'IRL''s breakneck pace, sporadic dialogue, and refusal to shy away from the roughest parts of the 2010s teenage experience makes it an absolute standout. The events that play out between Jessie and Melvin are chilling. It's strikingly painful to see this boy succumb to the depths of peer pressure in front of your eyes, and as a reader it's easy to become possessed with the desire to reach out and save him.
There's something so raw and striking about Matthew Alan Craig's style. 'IRL''s breakneck pace, sporadic dialogue, and refusal to shy away from the roughest parts of the 2010s teenage experience makes it an absolute standout. The events that play out between Jessie and Melvin are chilling. It's strikingly painful to see this boy succumb to the depths of peer pressure in front of your eyes, and as a reader it's easy to become possessed with the desire to reach out and save him.
”
Brent Alles:
IRL
by Matthew Alan Craig
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The pace is breakneck and breathtaking. Going to assume that the dialogue is authentic to youth of the time period in question, because it definitely feels so. Much like the characters are bombarded by the constant flow of the Internet, we the audience are similarly bombarded with words and imagery until we're also not quite sure what's fantasy and what's reality. Are we "catfished" as well? It's an experience, friend, a definite experience. A raw, edgy, and provocative dark comedy/tragedy here.
The pace is breakneck and breathtaking. Going to assume that the dialogue is authentic to youth of the time period in question, because it definitely feels so. Much like the characters are bombarded by the constant flow of the Internet, we the audience are similarly bombarded with words and imagery until we're also not quite sure what's fantasy and what's reality. Are we "catfished" as well? It's an experience, friend, a definite experience. A raw, edgy, and provocative dark comedy/tragedy here.
