Special Topics In Calamity Physics

Author: Marisha Pessl

I wrote this account one year after I’d found Hannah dead.,I thought I’d managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.But I was wrong.Every night when I tried to sleep, I’d close my eyes and see her again, exactly as I found her, hanging from a pine tree by an orange elctrical cord, her neck twisted like a tulip stem, her eyes seeing nothing.Or else that was….Read More

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