We all know that life isn’t fair. But life should at least come with a printed copy in large type in case of misunderstandings and overbilling. - Paul Jenkins

The next morning, Wil Morgan awoke from a fitful night’s sleep and a rather disturbing variation of his anxiety dream in which he’d arrived too late to register for the World’s Biggest Failure competition and had been disqualified.

Wil knew that he had done something that might never be undone: his Dad might forgive the years of lies, but he would never forgive this one moment of absolute truth.

Outside, the city streets were gray and sodden. Indeed, Wil often fancied this was the city where they had invented the color gray.