57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides is an award-winning 2013 horror short story by Sam J. Miller. You can read it online here. It begins,
1. Because it would take the patience of a saint or Dalai Lama to smilingly turn the other cheek to those six savage boys day after day, to emerge unembittered from each new round of psychological and physical assaults; whereas I, Jared Shumsky, aged sixteen, have many things, like pimples and the bottom bunk bed in a trailer, and clothes that smell like cherry car air fresheners, but no particular strength or patience.
2. Because God, or the universe, or karma, or Charles Darwin, gave me a different strength, one that terrified me until I learned what it was, and how to control it, and how to use it as the instrument of my brutal and magnificent and long-postponed vengeance.
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Now I'm intrigued
ReplyDeleteIt's different, definitely different.
DeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteYes, such a novel concept.
DeleteWeird story, but I am fascinated by it being told in a numbered list! :)
ReplyDeleteI had never seen a story structured that way.
DeleteI am liking the idea of a psychological thriller.
ReplyDeleteThis story surprised me.
DeleteThis sounds most intriguing! Valerie
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what I thought :)
DeleteOh I can only imagine what a teen boy could do about revenge.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, especially is you have certain special skills.
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