“This is... impressive,” she says.
He nods. “It is, but it’s also a reminder. That’s it, just a notice for something you achieved at that very moment. That’s it. In other words, what have you done for me lately?”
She says, “I’ve read all of your works.”
Oh boy, he thinks, here it comes.
But in the next few seconds, he’s pleasantly surprised.
He fully expected her to say I’m your number-one fan and was going to cut the interview short if she went that way, but, nope.
“I’m just stuck at how... it just hits you,” she says.
“Thank you.”
Sheila says, “No, I mean, well, your stories, most of them are horror. Fantasy. Dark crime. Yet there’s this... odd grounding in everything.”
“Research,” he says. “It’s all research. And imagination. Sometimes dark imagination, but there you go.”
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