Someone asked me on That Other Site for "a good story of crime on the Dark Web". Now I am royally sick of how every. single. question. about. The Onion Protocol is about "is it true that they have cannibalism? Can I really buy counterfeit gift cards? Can you really buy a baby?"

So I obliged....

Crime on the dark web

Well, I was hanging out on my favorite red room site, on my way to picking up some Babysnax and my monthly supply of adrenochrome when I noticed a site that didn’t seem legitimate.

It was horrible! There were pictures of children! In school! Learning!

I asked to check if this wasn’t some kind of catalogue, where you could say, pick up a few kids, and they said, this was a girls’ school in Niger.

Well, you and I know what goes on in those “girls’ schools” amiright? (Nudge, nudge, wink-wink.) So I asked, and I was calmed by the fact that these girls were learning illegally, and it was a project by

It has been over two months since I came back to the United States, and if you are wondering how long it took between my plane touching down, and casing a Dollar Tree for ironic Young Adult novels, the answer is about 30 hours. Having a never-ending supply of free-to-cheap books is one of the highlights of being back.

Speaking of timelines: 12 years ago, while writing about a Nancy Drew book, I mentioned that the series was 82 years old. Meaning it is currently 94

In two days I am off to Seattle to see Tessie graduate with her Masters degree. This is astonishing to me, as it seems only two weeks ago she was a shy little thing hiding behind her mother's skirts when being introduced. I'm so proud of her. She's dealt with the loss of her mother to cancer and the trauma of being basically kidnapped up to Washington state. She lost her grandfather and the love of her aunt and yet leapt over all these