Dane Sullivan

Dane Sullivan was born and raised in what was once crowned "the most depressing county in America" by an online publication of questionable repute. His childhood was an echo of a lost era, one spent fighting with sticks, shooting bb-guns, and voraciously reading every book he could get his hands on. When the plant closed, and his parents lost their jobs, he soon found himself bound for the cities of the West Coast, where he met people who were different in every way imaginable from back home, but actually not any different at all.
As he'd been cursed with a highly mathematical mind, any other talent he possessed was overlooked and discouraged in favor of pursuing engineering. While enrolled in a top-ranked engineering program, he suffered a complete mental breakdown and developed a drug problem. They were turning him into a calculator. A calculator that would be used to make bombs. Then he discovered the joys of the American mental health apparatus, and there, in a locked ward, drugged against his will, he perceived the unacknowledgeable depths of our modern dystopia.
He "recovered," went back to his life, graduated, and found employment, but the things he learned in those darkest days have never left him. And now he writes to cope and to warm.