Before you read this, if the title doesn’t remind you of a certain joke, click here.
Warning: Risque. Not especially polite. 72% meta-fictional.
The story is long enough that I’ve linked to it here rather than keep it on the main page.
Before you read this, if the title doesn’t remind you of a certain joke, click here.
Warning: Risque. Not especially polite. 72% meta-fictional.
The story is long enough that I’ve linked to it here rather than keep it on the main page.
“It’s The Breakfast Club meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
Sleepy town in semi-rural America. Small public high school, too small for any actual cliques to form. Some kids are more popular than others. Every one of them is an individual with goals, hobbies, and a detailed personal life, though they are not, on the whole, especially introspective or knowledge-seeking.
In addition, each member of the senior class spends much of their time fighting the forces of darkness.
And seventeen other stories, besides.
None of these characters has any inkling of the others’ struggles; teenagers are very good at hiding their secret lives from others. But one day, all the hidden stories intersect, and the senior class will have to band together if they want to save their town…
…and the world? No, probably not the world. The world is a big place, with millions of hidden stories. But one town is enough.
This might be a metaphor for the fact that everyone has a unique set of problems and we shouldn’t judge from outward appearances, but it’s mostly a way for me to deal with real high school social dynamics (few books do this well) and also write lots of supernatural fight scenes.
(A short story, written for YDN Weekend. Will only make sense to people who were at Yale in 2013, I’m afraid.)
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I woke up and began to panic. It wasn’t far from New Haven to Boston, and I’d fallen asleep after a long night spent polishing my piece for the Harvard-Yale issue of WEEKEND. The train was empty, and I knew I’d missed my stop.
If only life had been that simple.