Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.

don’t know what made me feel worse, that I suddenly didn’t have the world’s knowledge in my pocket or that up until that moment, I’d always assumed I was entitled to it.

It broke the prime directive of horror films! If you don’t go looking for trouble, trouble won’t come looking for you!

That’s why I never had any sympathy for the horny teenagers going to the summer camp, or the greedy town mayor keeping the beaches open, or the rule-following spaceship crew that just had to investigate an alien distress signal. I knew I’d never be like them. I’d do my part and stay home.

Facts are supposed to banish monsters…

“Watery coffee today’s better than none tomorrow.”

“It’s a blessing and a curse, the human mind. We’re the only creatures on Earth that can imagine our own death. But”—she held up my spear—“we can also imagine ways to prevent it.”