Introduction [excerpt] The following manuscript is a piece of supernatural fiction set in the suburbs of New Jersey, with the exception of industrial areas, in the late 2010's. Deified is a character study of a first-person narrator with a retrospective view and nostalgic, curious voice. The narrator, named Forrest, is a Puerto Rican, teenage middle-schooler who analyzes the meaning behind the human voice and its potential, whether said potential is dormant due to familial...