A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

by Krystal Sutherland

You can love someone with all your soul and still hate yourself enough to want to die.”

If a person could offer you nothing but broken promises and disappointment, was love enough to make up for that?

“I mean . . . it’s not like he cheated on you, or killed your cat, or hit you, or had six kidnapped girls locked up in his basement.” “Well I haven’t verified the last one.” “You didn’t check for basement girls? Damn, you’re gonna get a rude awakening one day. Always check the basement.”

“That’s just the thing. It had nothing to do with you. So maybe love isn’t the poison you think it is. Maybe people just make mistakes. Maybe they’re even worthy of our forgiveness if they hurt us.”

And then the thought that she herself would die . . . Well, that was another panic attack entirely.

Reaper had chosen his next apprentice.