"But seriously! Is life fun or scary? Are people good or bad?" Tenth of December: Stories, Victory Lap, p. 9

"Then he saw that the kid was going to bring the rock down. He closed his eyes and waited and was not at peace at all but instead felt the beginnings of a terrible dread welling up inside him, and if that dread kept growing at the current rate, he realized in a flash of insight, there was a name for the place he would be then, and it was Hell." Tenth of December: Stories, Victory Lap, p. 25

"Down came the rock. Then the guy had no head. The blow just literally dissolved his head. Then his body tumped over and Kyle turned to her with this heartbroken look of, My life is over. I killed a guy." Tenth of December: Stories, Victory Lap, p. 26

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