ONUM's Book
ACADEMY OF ALCHEMISTS
My name is Kieran Morgan. I'm an American boy from the rural Midwest and this is the story of how my life changed when I went to college. My grades were good. I'd earned a scholarship that covered about half of my tuition. I was able to get grants and loans to pay for housing, books, and the remainder of the tuition. I would have to get a part time job if I was going to have any spending money. But I felt good about my prospects. My home life hadn't been the best. My parents had been killed in an automobile collision when I was 12, and I had been forced to move in with my uncle Craig and his family. He was a fire and brimstone preacher and an obnoxious bully. His kids were no better. They had resented me because of my grades, my looks (I was much better looking than them) and my athletic achievements (I was on the swim team and the diving team). My cousins slacked their ways through school and pursued no extracurricular activities aside from drinking, smoking dope and bullying anyone not in their circle of friends.