Six Wakes

by Mur Lafferty

All of our danger right now consists of problems that we can likely fix. Lost memories, broken computer, finding a murderer. Just a little work and we’ll be back on track.” “You are the strangest kind of optimist,” she said. “All the same, I’d like to continue to freak out if you don’t mind.”

She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

Pretty much the same for me.