I was going through my paper mail this morning, and I found a letter from the school district where I used to do time as a kid. Apparently the high school English department head found out that I've written a couple of novels, and wants to make my first one required summer reading.
I'm horrified by this. I don't want a captive audience, and I don't want people to grow up despising my work because it was shoved down their throats at school. Save that shit for when I'm dead and buried, please.
@generica There was also something in there about me coming and speaking to the students -- and I had sworn that if I ever returned to my hometown it would be with an army so that I could forcibly evacuate the populace, burn the entire town to the ground, and seed the earth with salt. :)
@starbreaker
Understand your hesitance but they could probably use a talk from someone like you. Plant some subversive seeds.