Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.