There was a girl in my son’s 5th grade class who took special pleasure in tormenting him. He wrote a letter outlining how much he hated her and that all sorts of bad things were going to happen to her. He threw the note away without tearing it up and some kid snatched it out of the waste basket, saw the girl’s name on it and gave it to her.

The school warned my son that they are required to report such notes to the police but that since they knew the note was a harmless expression of frustration that they weren’t going to report him. We just told him that in the future he should rip up the notes or just not write them at school.

Except for #7 this looks like something my son would write for shits and giggles (he doesn’t care if people are gay).

@...Dreth: Seriously. Dr. Steel is just trying to mainstream a genre. Others have tried before him, he just managed to make it onto MTV.

@...dieAntagonista: lol! I used to write short stories when I was a kid that would start out all nice, like say a story about a librarian and her life wishes and blah blah, and then I’d have the character die a terrible death. The librarian got eaten by a huge rat monster (this was before I knew of Princess Bride). No one ever saw those stories but I’m guessing my mother would not have been surprised since my parents started calling me morbid when I was 6 or 7. heh.