"Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again."

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Source: Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.314, Hachette UK

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Mira Grant is a pseudonym for author Seanan McGuire, known for her thought-provoking speculative fiction that examines societal fears and human nature.

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