I Thought I'd Finally Get To Relax

For Once, You're Going To Hear Something That Doesn't Fit Into Your Neat, Compartmentalized World Of Order And Logic And Reason.

Rose Hathaway: "you See Something You Like?" Dimitri Belikov: "get Dressed.

I'd Seen Weirder Things Than A Haunted Shoe, But Not Many.

My Mom Beat Me Up," I Informed My Reflection. It Looked Back Sympathetically.

I Didn’t Get Her Cutting At All. She’d Done It Sporadically, Ever Since The Accident And It Scared Me Each Time. She'd Try To Explain It To Me, How She Didn't Want To Die—she Just Needed To Get It Out Somehow. She Felt So Much Emotionally, She Would Say, That A Physical Outlet—physical Pain—was The Only Way To Make The Internal Pain Go Away. It Was The Only Way She Could Control It.