I’m amazed how often I have to remind myself that most children don’t like really depressing stuff, but I’m pretty sure if I ever published a real book, it would be a depressing children’s novel, cause that’s what needs to be done.
Fruit Incest
Relatively Fresh
Old timey fairy tales are depressing as hell, there’s a market for it.
The depressing stuff is all anybody remembers about Bambi or Old Yeller.
“… that she had actually just been running in circles the whole time, and her house was right over there.”