I should probably start with the blood.

“You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and …”

“I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the…”

“Under the best of circumstances, middle school is a sixth-circle-of-hell situat…”

“Chris loved you," I said, and the truth of it was almost a physical pain. She w…”