57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides

"57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" is a 2013 horror short story by Sam J. Miller. It was first published in Nightmare.

Synopsis

Jared is a teenage boy who lists the reasons why he mind-controlled a group of bullies into committing mass suicide.

Reception

"57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award.[1]

Tangent Online praised the story, and considered it to be "steeped in unmet yearnings and thwarted rage".[2]

Background

Miller has stated that the story is "about how privilege warps people’s relationships, and can turn people into monsters",[3] and emphasized that "(t)he real reason for [Jared's actions] isn't one of the 57 that Jared lists."[4]

gollark: I mean, you could shunt it to an archive channel via webhook things after however long, but that would have its own issues.
gollark: The precise time is tunable, after some amount of time it would probably cease to be discussed. And why should they *not* exist? The logreading issue is fixable as I said, search... maybe less so, but I'm not sure how many search queries actually turn up that stuff *now* and how big an issue it would be.
gollark: For logreading, it could probably put in a divider of some kind.
gollark: It could be semiautomated based on keywords (or, indeed, the criteria used to decide whether to have a conversation or not under your proposal), and disable it after, say, 15 minutes of no activity.
gollark: So, not working.

References
  1. 2013 Award Winners, at ShirleyJacksonAwards.org; published July 2014; retrieved August 11, 2020
  2. Nightmare #15, December 2013, reviewed by Lillian Csernica, at Tangent Online; published November 30, 2013; retrieved August 11, 2020
  3. Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller, by Erika Holt, in Nightmare; published December 2013; retrieved August 11, 2020
  4. Charles Tan Interviews Sam J. Miller, at ShirleyJacksonAwards.org; published July 11, 2014; retrieved August 11, 2020
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