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Ear­lier in the week, dared me to start a novel the next day. To prove I’m above such obvi­ous attempts at manip­u­la­tion, I waited two days to start. So there.

Here’s the open­ing of the first chapter.

You know about Occam’s Razor, right? The law that posits that the sim­plest solu­tion to a prob­lem is usu­ally the right one? Like when your TV doesn’t work, the first thing you check is to make sure that the plug is actu­ally in a socket. Well, in my house we have some­thing called Bill’s Razor, which posits that the first step in fix­ing any­thing bro­ken is for my dad to give it a good whack.