You Are Fatally Invited

by Ande Pliego

And writing fear requires the greatest vulnerability of all: a willingness to face your demons, and set them free.

“Sometimes the art of fiction isn’t in how intellectual it is, but how well it makes you actually forget the world around you. Sometimes, binge reading to escape reality can save a person’s life.”

You’d stolen every word I could ever have put on the page, and that hurt most of all.

“Sometimes wounds become scars, not because they’ve healed, but because they’re hiding what’s underneath from ourselves.” Damn, I loved and hated that line.