Run on Red

by Noelle W. Ihli

Ziggy was a “mage”: which Laura and I had to Google. It meant he was some kind of magician.

In a survival situation, everything is inconvenient. Stay focused on your top priority. Resist panic.

thought of myself as a true-crime junkie. But it turned out, that was only when it happened to other people.

Men like this said things like that to girls like us, knowing we’d been told our whole lives that if we listened carefully and followed the rules, we’d stay safe.