"Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up."

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

She wanted me to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge'.

anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?

My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.