Kaylee By Tod: A Short Story

Trista had always been a normal kid except for her stories. It wasn't that they were disturbing or horrific, they were just unusual. Sometimes they seemed exactly like the kind of thing you'd expect from a kid, but other times, I'd have to look at her and wonder how she came up with such things. It started when she was four, shortly after our dad split, leaving the two of us on our own.

Cameryn visits Dr. Jewel with her best friend, Lyric, and Adam. During the reading, Dr. Jewel shows signs that Cameryn’s friend and deputy of town, Justin Moore, is the one who killed Rachel. She becomes really suspicious of Justin and tries to be cautious. When Justin visits her house to talk about the case, Cameryn realizes that all victims that were involved in the Christopher killings were drugged. After going over and over the case with him, she sees scratches on Justin’s neck and thinks he killed Rachel because she thinks Rachel was struggling with Justin after being suffocated to death. In the previous reading with Dr. Jewel, he claimed that Rachel told him the number “8” and the letter “M.” Everything clicked with her after seeing Justin drive out her driveway and seeing the number “8” and the letter “M” on his license plate. Cameryn revisits Dr. Jewel and gets another reading. During the reading, she examines that he mixes DMSO in his drink. After putting all the puzzle pieces together, she remembered that there were peculiarities in Rachel’s autopsy. She calls Dr. Moore, a forensic pathologist, and asks him about

Although everything may seem like it fits perfectly, sometimes people just tell you what you want to hear. Ariana’s last two years have been filled with Kaitlynn sob stories about how she was wrongfully committed. After Briana Leigh’s confession her story all fell into place. This lead to Ariana taking a drunk Briana Leigh to a lake and drowning her. Ariana couldn’t believe that she ever thought Kaitlynn had lied to her. Just like always, Ariana formed a plan. This time, her plan was to get Kaitlynn out of Brenda T. so that they could finally move on with their lives like they always daydreamed about. When Kaitlynn finally does get out, they meet at the lake, where Briana Leigh Covington was killed. In this part of the book, Kaitlynn’s walls

He was checking in on her to make sure she was ok. He went to her room to check but when he walked, he didn’t find her. He went downstairs to see if she was down there and she wasn’t. He went outside and found her trying to kill herself. He took her down from hanging on the rope and took her inside. He found a knife in her pocket and was thinking that she was going to kill herself if the rope didn’t kill her. She was calming down and followed him to see where he put the knife, and she took it. When he went to sleep, she came into his room and killed while he was in the

Preceding the day of Anna’s death, Doug spoke to her when he saw her walking her dog around 6:30 a.m. She was wearing a sweater even though they were currently experiencing a heat wave. The day of her death her dog was excitedly barking for two hours. Doug attempted to call Anna but there was no answer. He then tried ringing her doorbell and again was left with no answer.

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“Other faces peered in from the sides of her eyes−her father and mother, and Charles, and Adam, and Samuel Hamilton, and then Aron, and she could see Cal smiling at her. He didn’t have to speak. The glint of his eyes said, ‘You missed something. They had something and you missed it.’” (554) Upon Aron’s visit to the brothel, Cathy is horrified after seeing his disgust of what she has become. Everything hurt more than it ever had, and she, in turn, plots to end her miserable life. Before she kills herself, Cathy decides to write her will stating that Aron will inherit everything she owns, and tells the sheriff to check Joe Valery’s fingerprints. Although Joe is an extremely minor character, Cal’s decision to show Aron their mother ultimately leads to his death as well. Cathy then commits suicide using the small bottle of poison that always hung from her neck. Lee works up the courage to open the envelope, and discovers that Aron was killed in the army. He is completely distraught and is sure that it is not his right to tell Adam his son is dead. (593) The first major event that occurs as a direct result of Cal taking Aron to see their mother is Aron enrolling in the Army. After being so disgusted that his mother is a prostitute Aron simply no longer has the will to live. This ultimately leads to

She remembered that we took the train tracks to obtain getting to her house faster. She had seen an opening in the neighborhood and she turned. We followed, but, Keisha noticed it was getting to the point of pitch black and decided to call her mother. She recalled that we showed up to her street when she noticed that there was teenage boys were in a pick-up. She viewed them speedup and also create noise to either to scare us or show off. She bellowed grow up as loud as she humanly could. She heard the truck come back and just ignored them. She heard them again and started running to her house. Nevertheless, Jordyn’s side is the last one to

Dorothy Allison's voice is one of authenticity, experience, and wisdom. This is apparent in her recounts of her mother's death and rape by her abusive stepfather as a child. She uses her storytelling as a way of sorting out her inner demons and memories of her broken life, “the [story] I wish I could make you hear,” as she says, because “the need to tell [her] story was terrible and persistent, and [she] needed to say it bluntly and cruelly, to use all those words, those old awful tearing words” (39, 42). She strives to get to the root of her own unresolved issues and, by her own admission, “[works] to make you believe [her]”:

So when she becomes a vigilante nobody will never know it’s her. So she wrote a suicide note. That way she doesn’t have to go to school. She went back home wrote the suicide note and have some chemicals, drugs, alcohol, and a knife on her desk. Her note read, “Dear whoever is reading this note, I can’t go on any longer. I just can’t take it anymore. I’m so sorry, but it’s the only way for me to be happy. I kept on trying to think positive. But I eventually got to the point that I was ready to die. It is nobody’s fault that I’m gone. I lived a life of anxiety, stress, and sorrow. But it was a good life. I am sorry for the morning you will do. I’m sorry, but I had no friends. No friends at all. Every single day was a struggle. I have been secretly depressed for two years now. I didn’t even think I could make it through the rest of the school year. Every day for two years I have always wanted to do this. So I could fall into eternal sleep. I was tired of the shoes I have been given. I wanted somebody else’s shoes. Or no shoes at all. I wanted a different life. I didn’t want it to be perfect. I just wanted another life where I could be happy. I just wanted a life where I didn’t have to keep any secrets from anybody. I know life is so short. It only lasts for so long. I know there is emotions and feelings I will never experience if I do this. I will never know what it is like to be a parent, to be a local role model, to be myself, to have no secrets, and more. Besides, no one will miss me when I’m gone. I just wish people could see the world through my eyes for once. And I could see the world through their’s. If only I could feel comfortable around others, instead of being someone I am not. Life is a gift everyone says. You should cherish it. Well I wish I had no present. I wish I was someone else. I know now that life is like a flower. That if you water it with happiness and positivity it will

Colin decides to kill Summer, Violet, Poppy, and Rose in the cellar as the police are arriving. Summer pushes Rose out of the way to defend her and Colin’s “...face turned hard as he realized I wasn’t going to go down without a fight” (310). After everything Summer has been through, she became more confident. She is proving to Colin that she isn’t scared of him anymore. With all the chaos happening around her, her conscience is saying, “If I was going to die down here, it was going to be trying to escape with Poppy, Rose, and Violet” (310). After all the trauma she encountered, she is still determined to not give up. If she was going to die, she wanted to die knowing that she tried everything she could possibly do to survive. She didn’t only want to save herself, she was willing to stand up for the other girls as well. Summer shields the girls and realizes, “...I felt strong now. My hate for him was busting from every pore in my body” (312). Being locked in the cellar for seven months made her a stronger person. She isn’t going to let one person ruin her life. All her anger and hatred for him is emitting from her body and she is ready to fight back. As Colin swings at her she, “...clenched her jaw, determined...and shoved her fist in his face” (312). Summer was finally ready to win. Her hopes of surviving were coming true and she no longer has to live a miserable life. She can now go home knowing she stood up for herself and her fight for survival were officially

Kat jumped to the ground and watched the wranglers lower Jake’s unconscious body from the wagon. “Don’t jostle him.”

She finds out that her sister wasn’t fitting in with all of the other girls because she didn’t really pledge allegiance to Aralt. Kasey wasn’t as happy and cheery as the other members of the Sunshine Club were. Even Megan and Alexis couldn’t overcome Aralt’s power. Kasey is found out and forced to pledge allegiance to Aralt. She tries to trick Alexis into saying the spell that will cause the volunteer to be sacrificed, but Alexis doesn’t fall for it when Kasey says that she wanted to be sacrificed. Kasey changes into a complete different person and gives her sister up. Another Sunshine Club member, Lydia Small, tried to join herself with Aralt and be the new keeper of the book, of his power. Alexis tries to stop Lydia by destroying the book. She took the book and ran to a store to burn it. Lydia gets ahold of the book and says the spell that joins her with Aralt. Alexis tries to stop her but it is too late. A dark shadow, Aralt, covered Lydia’s entire body, even seeping into her mouth to stop her from breathing. He sucked the life out of Lydia; she was dead. Alexis learned not to mess with ghosts ever

The sun was starting to come out , I can feel my eyes getting heavy , I should have took that coffee to go made yesterday . I felt like I was wasting my time with this , Karen and Trever were probably right , I should leave this to the police and worry about my life . I got up from the bushes rubbing off the dirt from my jeans , all of a sudden everyone came running out

The other girls called her “Ms. Piggy”. One day, her bullies planned a cruel prank on her. They hired a creepy old man to tie her upside down like a pig at the slaughterhouse and threaten her with a butcher knife. The man did as he was told except something went horribly wrong. While he had the butcher knife up to her throat, he slipped on a loose floorboard and accidentally slit her throat, spilling blood all over the floor. The funny thing is, the old man was never seen again. Some say he ran away so he wouldn’t get caught, some say he killed himself, and others say that Ms. Piggy came back to life and killed him. Legend has it that Ms. Piggy’s spirit still lingers here in town and torments those who bully.” By this time Lana was clutching onto Grace’s leg, shaking. “Don’t worry Lana, it’s just a story,” said Mary, looking down at her with a fake sympathetic look. She then looked at Grace and they both smirked and nodded