Do Your Worst

by Rosie Danan

It was curse breaking 101: pin down the origin. In their most basic form, curses were uncontrollable energy. And power stabilized when you completed a circuit back to the source. Riley’s first task was always uncovering specific details: who, when, why, and how.

Gran had taught Riley that curses came from people, born out of their most extreme emotions—suffering, longing, desperation—feelings so raw, so heavy, that they poured out and drew consequences from the universe.

“Tell me truly. Are you or are you not the personification of chaos?”