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336 pages
First published August 4, 2020
“You do this a lot?”
“It’s kind of my special gift.”
“World hopping?”
I swallow. “Dying.”
They say hunting monsters will turn you into one. That isn’t what’s happening now. Sometimes to kill a dragon, you have to remember that you breathe fire too. This isn’t a becoming; it’s a revealing. I’ve been a monster all along.
It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.
This book is for you if… your own imagination and creativity can make up for a lack of things-that-are-spelled-out-explicitly.
‘Why have I survived? Because I am a creature more devious than all the other mes put together. Because I saw myself bleeding out and instead of checking for a pulse, I began collecting her things. I survive the desert like a coyote survives, like all tricksters do.’
“Luck, I guess,” I say, because the first thing a monster learns is when to lie.
“someone found me and thought that I was worth something.”
“I don’t think she’ll miss me, that’s too limited a way of thinking. But she makes me feel like she’s noticed me and I’m grateful for that too.”
“The universe erases me, but it also remakes me again and again, so there must be something worthwhile in this image. ”