I was an anxious kid, and I had all this agitation inside of me, and so it made sense that I just assumed I might burst into flames. It seemed entirely possible. And then as I got older and became a teenager and my anxiety kind of became more understandable, I kind of wanted to burst into flames, like that would burn out all the anxiety inside of me and I’d be kind of clean. So I just kind of wanted that. And so it just repeated in my head over and over again until I decided, ‘I’ve got to write about it.’
— Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here, about two children who combust into flames when they’re upset
