Seconds (comics)

Seconds is a 2014 graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

Characters

Katie

• Have you seen this like skinny, white-haired, maybe-homeless girl hanging around the restaurant lately? She kinda has… red eyes. Reddish.
  • page 88

Hazel

• Is that weird? It’s my little ritual. You know, keeping the house spirit happy.
  • page 65

• We make things good for them… They make things good for us. It’s so simple.
  • page 66

• Keeping the house spirit happy— I mean, from a historical perspective— It was probably like some kind of justification for the endless amounts of housework the women had to do, right?
  • page 67

Lis

• Lis’s mushrooms. Lis’s house. Very old. There are rules.
  • page 127

Dialogue

Lis: If things

Katie: If things what?

Lis: Go wrong.

Katie: If things go wrong what?

Lis: Don’t forget.

• page 8

Katie: You feed her bread every day? Just bread? Wow.

Hazel: Yeah... Why wow?

Katie: I mean... Uh... Will she get fat?

Hazel: Wait... Bread makes you FAT?

• page 135

Instruction card

An “immaculately printed instruction card”

• A second chance awaits.
  1. Write your mistake
  2. Ingest one mushroom
  3. Go to sleep
  4. Wake anew
  Events must occur on these premises
  • page 46

External links

• Seconds at Random House