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...around them.

I'll have to watch Mal. I don't think he'll keep it together for long. But people have a habit of dying around me. Everything I wish for comes true. I'm safe. I'm gifted and chosen. I will be above them all. No one sees me; no one knows. I make things happen, but they don't know.

    Joe had never had to try at anything. Perfect grades fell into his lap like rain. A bully from way back had been run over crossing the street the day after he'd stolen Joe's lunch-money. The scholarship letter had come through the door without him recalling sitting any exam. Test papers gave up their answers to him in dry whispers. His older brother had died in another accident the same morning Joe had coveted his room.

Perfect, he thought. It'll work out. It always does.

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