By Gregory Galloway
Anna Cayne had moved the following in August, prior to our sophomore 12 months in highschool, yet by way of February she had, one after the other, killed all people on the town. Anna—who prefers to be known as Anastasia—is a touch spooky and complex highschool woman with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tips, and ghost tales. She spends a lot of her time writing obituaries for each dwelling individual on the town. She is in contrast to somebody the narrator has ever identified, and so they make an not going, notwithstanding satisfied, pair. Then per week sooner than Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, forsaking just a gown put well close to a gap within the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. desirous to locate her, or not less than to appreciate what occurred and why, the narrator starts off to reconstruct the prior 5 months. and shortly the fragments of curious occasions, intimate conversations, secrets and techniques, and weird letters (and the nameless messages that proceed to reach) coalesce into haunting and amazing revelations which could implicate buddies, relations, or even Anna herself.
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All of Anna’s friends were there, looking right at me. ” She laughed again. “Do they ever? Forget it. Pay some attention to me for a change. ” At halftime I went to get us something to drink at the concession stand behind the bleachers. ” I said. ” I waited on line and wondered how many people had noticed Anna and me together. No one said anything to me and no one appeared to be paying any more attention to me at all. It was a little disappointing. I bought a box of popcorn and a couple of large cups of soda.
I had the feeling that she did that sort of thing all the time. The rules didn’t apply. I had to get to class, but I wanted to keep following her, I wanted her to talk to me more. By the time I had thought of saying something else to her she was disappearing down the hall. i don’t want to bore you, but . . This is what you should know about me: I’m bland. I’m milk. Worse, I’m water. Worse yet, I’m a water glass—at least water can change shape or become some other form, like ice or vapor. Instead, I’m bland and rigid and everyone can look right through me and see that there’s nothing.
There are a few newspaper accounts of some of the events, some TV coverage, and there’s the police report (which I wasn’t allowed to see), but none of those is really helpful. They all focus on the superficial details, and miss the real story of what happened. They’ve got their own version of the world to sell. Besides, they only tell what they’ve been told anyway, and very few of them talked to the person who knows the most about it—me. This is what I know happened, or think happened. I fell in love with a girl, and then she left, and later she tried to come back, or I thought she did, and I went after her.