{"quotes":[{"text":"Would've been useful when I was about eight,' I said. 'I used to have wicked nightmares.' I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.","author":"Robin Stevenson","tags":["childhood","chucky","creepy","doll","dream","elmo","embarrassing-moment","gives-me-the-willies","kid","nightmare","parent","psycho","puppet","sesame-street","spooky","stalker","wicked","young-adult"],"id":110492,"author_id":"Robin+Stevenson"},{"text":"I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["cupcake","cyd-charisse","drugs","gingerbread","high","humour","leg-injury","medication","oscar-the-grouch","painkillers","pills","rachel-cohn","sesame-street","shrimp"],"id":152194,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"},{"text":"Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-ha.","author":"Richard Bachman","tags":["nostalgia","sesame-street","stephen-king","the-count"],"id":459529,"author_id":"Richard+Bachman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}