Watchlist Countdown, Day 11: “Sleeping Where Jean Seberg Slept” by Katherine Karlin

     But Jean was a woman. A woman who had ideas. An attractive woman who had ideas, and this is why she had to be neutralized.

       from “Sleeping Where Jean Seberg Slept” by Katherine Karlin

A lot of characters in the Watchlist anthology are monitored, followed, interrogated, and harassed, but perhaps none meet as sad an end as Jean Seberg, the gamine, too-sexy-for-her-own good movie star of the mid-twentieth century. In Katherine Karlin’s short story...