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“Yellowjacket Summer”, a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in The Twilight Zone magazine, October 1986.

©1986 Robert McCammon (P)2015 Audible, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Science Fiction
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You know the episode of that TV show in which a kid with superpowers controls a town through terror while demanding that everyone does whatever he wants and always treats him kindly?... A trope so formulaic that it was parodied by The Simpsons?... Well...

And I don't often say this, but why didn't they just kill him?

Of course, I know that the answer is so that they could have the dramatic finale. But it's yet another eye-rollingly frustrating case of the protagonist of a horror story doing the stupidest thing possible so that the story can happen.

Obvious Trope Is Obvious...

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