Things are just off in this town. They always have been, and honestly I feel like they always will be. Nobody ever bats an eye at anything strange happening in this town. Ever. People go missing, not constantly, but just enough that if you're paying attention you start to notice. A kid here, a drifter there, sometimes a whole damn family is just gone. Nobody really talks about it either. They'll shrug and say “Oh I'm sure they moved,” or, “They left in the night,” or, “Oh it's a tragedy.” How many kids getting lost in the woods is too many? People treat it like it's normal but it's not.

I remember when my friend Jamie disappeared. It was 2002 and we were both 14. We were supposed to hang out the weekend he went missing, and I still have the DVD that we were going to watch. His mom told everybody that she was sure that he ran away to go live with his dad in Minnesota. Except his dad went missing in ‘94. I looked it up.

But if you try to bring it up at the library or god forbid the diner? People just give you a look, like you're the one that's crazy. I'm tired of being the only one who gives a shit. No one else will ask questions I guess that's my job.