Jeff Somers
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Author, freelance writer, terrible chess player. jeffreysomers.com
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C'mon, my aversion to all risk has to payoff eventually, right?

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OTHER PLAYERS: In two rounds you will owe her 50,000 points and be forced to perform a humiliating dance.

ME: Again?

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It's just embarrassing that we're 25 years into the 21st century and we still can't control the weather or access other dimensions.

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Most of my shame is hot dog-related. Interpret that as you will.

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Not sure what's stopping me from locating an abandoned mansion in the woods, fixing it up, and walking around wearing a smoking jacket at all times.

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If you’ve ever met me, you know that the word stringent does not, as a rule, attach itself to me as a descriptor. I am florid, and messy, and irritatingly sweaty, but not, yanno, stringent.

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The more you talk about how big cities are dangerous and gross, the more certain I am you have never lived in a big city.

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Nate decides he has to go rescue her himself, and slowly realizes that not being able to feel pain might actually be a superpower. That’s an okay premise! And then the film does fuck-all with it.

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The Best Horror Books of 2025

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Honestly miss the era when Cy Young-caliber pitchers would have, like, 300 innings pitched and 89 strikeouts.

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I’ve always had a fraught relationship with any activity that required skill.

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The day you stop yourself from trying to brute force something that doesn't immediately fit is the day you're finally safe to be left to your own devices.

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“The other day I found $5 on the sidewalk and I was elated, and then very, very depressed. Such is the glam life of a pro writer.”

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We really missed the boat by not normalizing having raccoons as pets.

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I’m that much more dangerous thing: An *untrained* mime.

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I'm starting to think the Internet was a mistake, and this is coming from a man who once considered Limewire to be the greatest invention of his lifetime.

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“When I was a kid, television was terrible, but to compensate for this terribleness the universe had made it also very transient.”

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