Disappearance at Devil's Rock

But ghosts aren’t white or bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong. Maybe she’s the opposite, the film negative of a ghost, then, which is something that hasn’t been given a name yet. This film-negative ghost-her isn’t doing the haunting and is instead haunted by everyone (including herself) and everything.

With the avalanche of stress, the lack of sleep, continued red-line-level caffeine intake, Elizabeth’s heart races through a two-minute punk song of beats.

That Tommy wasn’t more popular at school was at times a mystery, given that he was graceful, tall, handsome, and not totally blighted with acne. But it was this punched-in-the-gut posture Tommy carried throughout most of the day at school, as though some unseen sadness manifested in him physically and the desperate herds of classmates could sense this flaw, this otherness, within him. No one picked on Tommy or made fun of him like they did Luis and Josh; they stayed away from Tommy, and maybe that was worse.