And The Children Shall Lead, And The Squiggly Handwriting Shall Follow

[redscharlach]

If you've bought any reading matter lately, you may have noticed that many bookshops now house a specialist section devoted to true-life tales of people who had really appalling childhoods. The sign on the shelves is usually something like "Tragic Life Stories" or "Painful Lives", but I believe the genre is known in the trade as "misery lit" or "

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[izzyfics]

"This is meant to be funny, right?" -Captain T.J. Krik

*giggles* this is freaking hilarious.

[tintop_lizzy]

This is such a precarious minefield of bad taste it must be mined...

Dr Nine: My ears were laughed at
Matilda:Firestarting at the infant school level
Owen from TW: ...

[mwmm23]

LOL! The bookshelves of "Tragic Life Stories" and their unfailingly pattern attributes have long fascinated me. Those would fit right in. XD

I bet Sylar would be totally willing to write one of these.

[l0stmyrel1g10n]

Yesplease.

[redscharlach]

I've already imagined Sylar's autobiography in a rather different style, but the true-life tragedy kind would work too. I shall give the matter some thought and see whether I can come up with any suitably punning titles...

[livii]

Love these!

[noein9]

*LAUGHS*