Mature
Length11h 30m
About this audiobook
Malik’s monsters never lived under the bed. They wore perfume and cologne, and they had given him his name.
Before he became the man your friends warn you about, Malik was a boy in a hallway, learning that love and danger could wear the same face. The armor he built saved the child. It nearly destroyed the man. The Fuck Boy follows him from a childhood where safety was an illusion into an adulthood of charm, conquest, and carefully managed distance, and then to the moment the pattern finally turns and faces him.
Written by Rory E. Carothers Sr., LPC, a licensed professional counselor and Army veteran, this is literary fiction with a clinical spine, a story for the one who was hurt by someone like Malik and for the one who has begun to suspect he might be Malik. It refuses to glorify the games, and it refuses to mistake the wound for the person.
A companion guide, Decoding the Fuck Boy, names what this novel makes you feel. Listen to the story first. Feel it. Then decode it.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Fuck Boy
14Chapter 9. The Angry Man
2A Note Before You Begin
15Chapter 10. Running from the Mirror
3A Note on the Story Ahead
16Chapter 11. The Women I Hurt
4Dedication
17Chapter 12. The Loneliness Nobody Sees
5Epigraph
18Chapter 13. The Moment Everything Cracked
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6Chapter 1. Monsters at Home
19Chapter 14. Meeting the Boy Again
7Chapter 2. The First Betrayal
20Chapter 15. Rewriting the Rules
8Chapter 3. Becoming Invisible
21Chapter 16. The Man Beyond the Mask
9Chapter 4. Boys Don’t Cry
22Author’s Note
10Chapter 5. Searching for Validation
23A Note on the Companion Guide
11Chapter 6. The Masks We Wear
24About the Author
12Chapter 7. Love, Lust, and Confusion
25Finding Help: Resources and When to Seek Them
13Chapter 8. The Hustle for Worth
26Closing Credits
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