title: To What Miserable Wretches Have I Been Born?: Revenge Poetry for Babies and Toddlers
author:  Suzanne Weber 
description: <span>"Suzanne Weber channels her inner vengeful infant to bring readers laugh-out-loud meditations on all the ways we've wronged our young. The titles alone are brilliant...." -- HuffPost Parents</span><br /><br />"<span>I have absolutely no idea how she does it, but Weber somehow manages to simultaneously make you laugh</span><span></span><i>and</i><span></span><span>get you a little verklempt with her hilarious poetry. Maybe it's because she absolutely</span><span></span><i>nails</i><span>what our babies would tell us if they could.</span><span>It's all a little bit twisted and a whole lot of fun." -- CoolMomPicks.com</span>
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  Interlude in Death
  
  
  
  
  
  (In Anthology Out of this World)  
  
  
  
  
  
  By J. D. Robb
  
  
  
  
  
  Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.  
  
  
  \-- Aristotle  
  
  
    
  
  
  Happy is the child whose father goes to the devil.  
  
  
  \-- sixteenth-century proverb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  The faces of murder were varied and complex. Some were as old as time and the
  furrows scoring them filled with the blood spilled by Cain. One brother's
  keeper was another's executioner.  
  
  
    
  
  
  Of course, it had been rather elementary to close that particular case. The
  list of suspects had been, after all, pretty limited.  
  
  
    
  
  
  But time had populated the earth until by the early spring of 2059 it so
  crawled with people that they spilled out from their native planet to jam man-
  made worlds and satellites. The skill and ability to create their own worlds,
  the sheer nerve to consider doing so, hadn't stopped them f