Come Closer

by Sara Gran

We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t. And neither did I.

WE COULD DEVOTE our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.

when it ran out, in mid-November, I went back to the same drugstore and stole another tube.

In this line you can notice that she did, in fact, steal the lipstick. She is an unreliable narrator, which begins to paint the picture for the audience.

I thought, What if I stuck Edward with this cigarette?

Ed didn’t believe that just because something was alive, that meant you had to love it.

It wasn’t until months later that I would look back and realize that, most likely, I had killed the magazine dealer myself.

She is slowly losing herself in her own mind; this writing is amazing.

By now the most shocking truth wasn’t that there were more like her and me, or that her ability to manipulate me was growing so rapidly—it was that, previously, I had been so stupid as to think I had any understanding of the universe at all.

“I never made you do anything,” she said. “I only let you do what you wanted. I told you, Amanda, I can’t have fun without you.”