Hex

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

They looked like people who knew they had done something dreadful, something irreversible … and something they could easily live with.

This was a pivotal scene in the book: I knew that if I could make you believe that a modern-day society in a modern-day town could spiral down into convicting three modern-day teens who’d done something dreadful to public torture in the middle of the town’s square, in front of some three thousand people who then go home and continue with their everyday lives... the book would succeed. Looking back at it, man, I make a pretty dark point about humanity here.