Fear the Fantastic

K. A. Applegate

Everworld Christopher was sitting in a tree that was growing in a way that reminded me very much of watching the little blue bar at the bottom of my Web browser. I mean, I knew it was fast for a tree, but damn it was slow. 


Now I was on the trail again, filling out apps, pretending to care, shaking hands, and telling


Now I was on the trail again, filling out apps, pretending to care, shaking hands, and telling lies. 


I spotted David moving in on her, talking to her in an intense way. The boy could single-handedly kill the cumulative buzz of the entire population of Jamaica on a Saturday night. 


I said to him, 'Zeus, Father, you know how you get when you drink mead.' Artemis, who is a terrible prude, you know, said, 'Half the maidens between here and Troy know how he gets when he drinks mead.' So Zeus says, 'Only half? Pour me a tall one, Ganymede, I have work to do!'" 


The boy is crazy. The boy is Senna's tool. The boy is a humorless jerk a lot of the time. But the boy has radioactive, titanium cojones.