Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael.