“Heathers” 25th anniversary…or why I write YA

Dear diary, my teen angst bullshit now has a bodycount.

Those immortal wordswere like (what’s the opposite of Kryptonite?) to me. I wasn’t quite 12 when Winona Ryder’s Veronica Sawyer uttered them, although I was probably at least 14 (or maybe even 15) when I first heard them. Still deep into my 90210 obsession, and not quite able to reconcile Shannen Doherty’s Heather Duke character with her earlier portrayal of Jenny on Little House on the Prairie and (then-) current turn as Brenda Walsh. Of...