My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

She could decide how she was going to be. She had a choice. Life could be an endless series of joyless chores, or she could get totally pumped and make it fun. There were bad things, and there were good things, but she got to choose which things to focus on. Her mom focused only on the bad things. Abby didn’t have to.

Where everyone was desperate to be an individual, but they all were terrified to stand out.

“Some things that are broken cannot be fixed,”

They go to church and smile, but there’s this dark evil inside of them.

So you’d better have your ass covered or it’s going to be grass, and I’m going to be the lawn mower.”