Bellucci’s Hex of Generation X

valeri 440 stories

Summary

They called Generation X the forgotten generation. Bellucci’s Hex of Generation X asks what happens when the generation everyone overlooked turns out to be the one that learned how to survive everything. Vinny Bellucci and Valeri Caronna were both born in 1977. Vinny is a Gemini. Valeri is a Leo. Both are Generation X. They grew up in the analog world and survived long enough to master the digital one. They remember latchkeys, landlines, television static, paper records, being left alone, figuring things out without supervision, distrust of institutions, dark humor, independence, and a world where your entire life was not automatically recorded. Now those old Gen-X traits begin showing up everywhere around them. Vaughn Caronna is publishing a Generation-X project through Caronna Publishing, digging through the culture, history, technology, childhood patterns, work habits, nostalgia, and social changes that shaped the generation. Vinny and Valeri are both dealing with exes, dragging old relationships and old versions of themselves back into the present. The Five Families are dealing with another X when someone begins exploiting their transportation routes. What first looks like unauthorized X-rated merchandise becomes something serious enough that Vinny cannot negotiate, collect a percentage, or handle it privately. Federal authorities ultimately take possession and purs