Killing my bullies let me sleep at night

Even if I only did it on paper

Think of an idea for a short story about revenge. What would be the concept? Who would be your main character?

My bullies were in high school. I was a nerd before there was even such a word, and as such, I was subject to the constant torment of my intellectual inferiors/physical superiors.

It wasn’t until I was at uni some 30 years later that, thanks to a creative writing class, I was able to wreak my revenge on them in the form of a series of strange and gory industrial accidents.

I would have done it years earlier had I known that doing so would have ended my nightmares.

Robyn Sinéad Sheppard

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Genderqueer asexual curmudgeon. She/her/hers. Time-traveler. Essayist. "Ego sum, ergo sum scribere."

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