One of the comedy Instagram accounts I follow, which is normally very funny, posted a video yesterday of a guy asking a girl out, she and her friends laughing at him, and then him beating the shit out of the girl and screaming that he’s going to fucking kill her. Not real, of course, but absolutely vile stuff. And…

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." -Margaret Atwood

Was just reading yesterday’s piece about this. My first thought was, “She’s dead.” Really wish I’d been wrong. Fourteen years old, the whole world and life ahead of her, apparently happy, beautiful... and surely innocent of whatever motive there may have been.

Well, the whole time he was talking about the poltergeist, I was thinking about 10th grade English and how we called that the Houdini. I probably said almost exactly the same words Amy did and I’m pretty sure she didn’t plagiarize me...