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"Story 1: “Room 24” by Caroline Kepnes.
“Abel heard a siren and remembered the virus.”
“Remembered the virus” is a good summary of the relation of this story to The Stand, but it’s a well-written, unnerving story, and I love an unreliable narrator. I also enjoy stories that are only obliquely connected to another work’s plot, in how those secondary stories fill out the main story’s world." — Dec 25, 2025 03:40AM
"Story 1: “Room 24” by Caroline Kepnes.
“Abel heard a siren and remembered the virus.”
“Remembered the virus” is a good summary of the relation of this story to The Stand, but it’s a well-written, unnerving story, and I love an unreliable narrator. I also enjoy stories that are only obliquely connected to another work’s plot, in how those secondary stories fill out the main story’s world." — Dec 25, 2025 03:40AM
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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“How do you ruin a people? Is it with fire? Is it with bullets? You can drag a man through the street tied to the back of a horse. You can incinerate a village. Can line families up in rows against a brick wall and fell them, one by one, like a forest. But all it takes is one survivor, and the story lives on. One survivor to carry the poems and the songs, the prayers, the sorrows. It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”
― Thistlefoot
― Thistlefoot
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“When you're 21, life is a road map. It's only when you get to be 25 or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're 40 are you entirely sure. By the time you're 60, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Joyland
― Joyland
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