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stories: books you remember from your childhood

welp, i’ve tried very hard to find the names of either of these books, but i have no idea what they were called. the first one i’m pretty sure had the word horses in the title, and i don’t remember anything about it except that it had a lot of sex scenes, which was fascinating to 10 year old me. there was also a scene where the main character ate tuna straight out of the can, and his (father’s?) maid gave him shit for it.the second one had i think a car in a desert sort of setting on the cover and it was about this girl who goes with her boyfriend to get an abortion, and while she’s sedated, she imagines this alternate reality consisting of only her and her friends and they all die, and each one has like a riddle or something that gives them some idea of how they die. the riddle about one of her friends is that he walks along a high wall that gets thinner and thinner until he can’t walk on it anymore and it ends up cutting him in half. at the end, the abortion goes wrong and the girl dies.

of course i also read a series of unfortunate events. i even had the unauthorized autobiography.