~When I was a kid, it seemed like everything good happened in America, like cheerleading, and yearbooks, and proms, Satanism and the Manson family.~

~It started when I was a Columbiner, although that all belongs to a different version of me, an earlier draft that occurred somewhere between scrapping the girly-girl version of myself, the version that carried a handbag, and the creep that I am today.~

~Job ads are written in a language I don't speak. Self-starter, results-focused, standard, highly competitive, pro rata, OTE. How do you pick a career if you don't know what anything means?~

~It made sense that I felt most alive as the clock struck three.~

~I read once that people who read true crime believe there's a disproportionate chance of something terrible happening to them, that serial killers are more common than they are. But what about those of us who have lived through it?~