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Mitch did have weird thoughts. But he’d learned by the eighth grade not to tell them to anyone. Whenever he did, he got into trouble. Being asked to explain in front of his mother and the vice principal why he felt compelled to draw spiders over all the female body parts in his health textbook had been humiliating. After that, he learned to hide his
“Moral to the story, always double-check,” said Brenda. “No. Expect people to be lazy and stupid,” he told her.
“I learned that the things you covet are often burdens for those who possess them,”
“Aldous Huxley and George Orwell would have had a field day with this,” he mused. “Big Brother is in your pocket and your news feed.”
“Here’s the thing the conspiracy theorists don’t understand. There’s not one big giant conspiracy.” He took a sip of his beer and continued. “Just hundreds of tiny ones.”
But the kind of interaction Jackie described wasn’t something Sloan had thought much about.
Most of us parents weren’t or aren’t. This is scary. I know we missed some similar things when we were raising our kids and it didn’t turn out great.
“Yeah, Dad, of course. Where else am I gonna hire Russian hit men and buy barrels full of fentanyl?” Jackie said sarcastically.
I laughed, but what a smart aleck. Then again, I was a smart mouthed punk, too.
we had a no-spanking policy here. Judge how successful that was for yourself.”
under his insectoid goggles.
Great imagery.
“If you walk into a library and really think about it, it’s not empty. There are thousands of people waiting to speak to you.
As Theo considered the limited selection, he felt a sense of loss realizing how many tens of thousands, or perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of books were sitting on old library shelves, never saved electronically or uploaded to the internet, destined to be lost forever at some point. Who knew what treasures and secrets could be found inside those pages?
