Why do you like revenge themed stories so much? Were you bullied as a kid?

Um…not really?

I was the bully in elementary school, actually. Then my parents moved out to the Northwest, and at my new school, I was the slightly bullied loner kid for a few years until high school, where I played the role of the gay-guy-pretending-to-be-a-straight-guy-pretending-to-be-gay, if that makes sense, and I wasn’t bullied then either. So I wouldn’t say that’s why at all.

I guess, if I can say this without coming off like a completely self-righteous prick, I have a…keen sense of justice. That’s not to say I go around being judgemental or anything (or at least not on purpose) it’s just that people treating other people badly makes me feel really awful and angry. I mean, I look back on how I used to be a bit of a playground bully as a little kid, and I kind of just wish someone had slapped the shit out of me sometimes. We live in a really unjust world at the moment, and looking at it just tends to make me sick to my stomach. My stories help me combat that a bit, I guess. The fantasy of people finally getting what they deserve is just, well, relieving in many ways. Of course, fantasizing about change doesn’t do much to actually effect change, so it’s kind of worthless in the end I suppose.