Starter Stories

“Maybe it’s psychosomatic to you as well.”

“It was too easy to disappear back then. I’ve forgotten all the previous lives I’ve lived. Even now people recognise me for who I was pretending to be ten years ago. Maybe I shouldn’t have made such significant impressions and saved so many lives but no one else was doing anything."

“No… maybe. But I don’t want it. If you don’t hear from me in a week, I’m dead.”

“She absolutely has, but she’s also attracted to that sort of thing, and the doctor said I have to refrain from sex for another week.”

“My usual optimism has been dimmed by the sun going out. However, my hope is not like the sun, and it will continue to burn on.”

“I saw it too. It was like an out of body experience. It turns out that that can happen when you get a body double that’s a little too accurate. Sometimes the assassins get confused.”

“Not without a blade enchanted to kill a god, but I’m not letting you touch my god-killing weapons until I know that you won’t slice yourself open by mistake.”

“Sometimes your neighbours try very hard to kill you, and you’re a child with very limited means to defend yourself. And then time passes, you still live next to the people who tried to kill you. That’s just the sort of thing that happens in a small town.”

“If it really came down to it, I think we’d have to be each other’s alibis, because you’re the only other person I know who’d be willing to do the same things I am.”

“... Someone else can do the presentation.”

“I’m not afraid of most things anymore which is equal parts bravery and apathy. I don’t feel pain either. It might be a sign that I’m dying.”

“In my heart, I am an outside creature. But also, I have a recurring nightmare of that bed trying to eat me.”

“Come on, you know I’ve never once gotten along with anyone in my age group. I need to stay around children so that I can pretend I’m not incredibly behind in both life goals and intelligence.”

“Death really does just follow you around. It’s never your fault, but wherever you go someone dies.”

“I mean, your actions definitely helped people see you as one of them, but you’re really not wrong about the pathetic blue eyes thing. It was kind of baffling to watch.”

“No, I think it’s straight up mental illness. I think getting hit by a train might resolve it, but I’m not going to try.”

“I don’t know much about children, but I think most children of that age are able to remember events that occurred a week or two earlier. I think this might be due to the brain injury.”