Dreadful

by Caitlin Rozakis

So, this was shock. It seemed terribly inconvenient that the brain’s reaction to being placed in mortal jeopardy was to become much stupider.

“But we don’t choose what life we get, we just do our best to make the most of it.”

“Evil isn’t math, right? It’s not like I can do some magic number of good deeds that will somehow balance out the bad things. I can’t unhurt the people I hurt, even if I tried to change the way I act now.”

“Who’s the real anyone? When does who you’re pretending to be stop being a pretense and turns into who you really are?”