HUMOR

Slayed by Joy

The long lost days of friends

Daniel Williams
18 min readAug 22, 2021

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illustration by author

The excitement of lighting a bomb is the excitement of lighting a birthday cake when you know for a fact that your most reckless wish is going to come true, in seven to ten seconds.

As a child, I knew this excitement well.

I lived for it.

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Daniel Williams

A poverty-stricken, soft Batman by night. Illustrator and writing teacher by day. Previously: McSweeney’s, Slackjaw.