Lay Lines by Carol Lay for July 17, 2023

You’ve re-invented the plot for Death Note.

Shades of The Lathe of Heaven.

We need more people like her.

Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas. I read that book.

Love the Dorian Gray panel.

I thought that as the way it as headed, kinda nice to have a happy ending, though.

Vincenzo Natali did a tragically underrated film entitled “Nothing” structured around this idea. As you might imagine, it quickly goes in a different direction.

There was an story I read an long time ago called Obstinate Uncle Otis with this premise, the ending is funnier through. Its online if you want to read it

After all the time I’ve spent on Earth, honestly, I would have way less guilt about “disappearing” people who were effing it up for the rest of us. Applied judiciously ( with occasional petty fits) it could be good.

Happy ending. It will take years, hopefully decades, to restore the population of actively evil humans to normal levels.

Four O’Clock, 1958 short story by Price Day. Adapted for The Twillight Zone in 1962.

I love this.

With great power comes great responsibility. Luckily for her, she shed both in the nick of time!