![]() ![]() (That’s creepier to me now than it was at the time. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a boy who sets up a hidden camera in the girls’ locker room in the hopes of photographing showering students. ![]() ![]() That night, my teacher called my mom to discuss the novel I’d chosen for my book report - Die Softly by Christopher Pike. There will be some twenty-year-old spoilers past this point, so hardcore purists beware! The above is an image from the film Mikey (1992). When it finally came, I drew an arm from the elbow down, the hand clutching a baseball bat, and below that, the head and shoulders of a blonde cheerleader, her eyes closed, a trickle of blood streaming from her head and swirling with water as it runs down a shower drain. I remember sitting at my desk, pencil poised over the narrow strip of white paper while I waited for inspiration. In fourth grade, my teacher asked us to write a book report and to attach a bookmark featuring a scene from the book. If I close my eyes, I can still picture it. ![]()
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