Lee Casey plays guitar in a noise band called Ottermeat, about to leave NJ, to try and make it in Los Angeles. For now, he’s squatting in a collapsing house, working as a stone mason, driving a jacked up pickup truck that he crashes into everything. As a close friend Ods in his sleep, Lee falls into a three-way relationship with two college girls, June Doom and K Neon. F250 is a novel equal parts about growing up, and being torn apart. "Bud Smith is Nick Hornby if you strapped him to a Tesla coil and launched him into a Sun made of Poetry." --Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and some for the Day "Refreshing. Bud is a good one." Otherppl This is my second novel. It was written mostly in the back of a pickup truck on coffee breaks and lunch breaks at the Byway oil refinery in Linden, Nj during the summer of 2013. I typed it out on my cellphone and edited it at night when I came home from work. I was working as a boilermaker when I wrote this, welding and repairing equipment that processed crude oil into gasoline. That's fitting, because when I did have an F250 pickup truck in between 2003-2006, it drank all the gasoline I could afford to dump into its dual tanks. That was back when I was working as a stone mason, myself, much like the narrator of the book. I built water falls into swimming pools then, too, just like there narrator of the book. I did play in a band. I did know girls like K Neon and June Doom. This is a novel. This is a work of fiction. "Bud Smith is a great writer. F250 is full of blood, Yager shots, BMW hatred, and people with their faces ripped off." Scott McClanahan, Hill William and Crappalacia "How does this work? Bud Smith is a wild and wily bard, and his song about a songster is what the Beats might have written - if they'd had half the self-awareness and subtle hu- mility Smith writes with." Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed These Human Bodies "Bud Smith writes with the type of honesty that you would expect from a man who regularly uses a jackhammer." Aaron Dietz, author of Super "Bud Smith is Nick Hornby if you strapped him to a Tesla coil and launched him into a Sun made of Poetry." --Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and some for the Day Bud Smith is the author of the novel, Tollbooth (Piscataway House, 2013), the poetry collection, Everything Neon (Marginalia 2013) and the short story collection, Or Something Like That (Unknown Press 2012). He works heavy construction in NJ, and lives in NYC with his wife.