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bookwormshearts · 2 years

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✨REVIEW✨ Every Last Fear By Alex Finlay "You have two choices when you're confronted with your every last fear: Give up or fight like hell"-Evan pine ( I have mad respect for this man) ✨ This book was a page turner. It's started with a bang.Sometimes as soon as you pick a book up you just know that you are going to enjoy consuming every page and this is exactly what happened with 'Every last Fear'. ✨ Matt Pine an NYU student, receives some devastating news that his father Evan, mother Olivia, sister Maggie and baby brother Tommy have died in Mexico in a gas leak. His elder brother Danny is in prison convicted of killing his girlfriend. The family utterly believe in Danny’s innocence and fits a false confession which is the subject of a Netflix documentary about wrongful conviction. ✨ It started so strongly.The plot was so well done and had me engrossed! It was very emotional reading about a family pulled apart by tragedy, and I was heartbroken by the end! Seriously, I lay in bed after feeling so sad, because even though I knew the Pine family were dead from the very first page, I felt like I knew them. They suffered so much to prove their son innocence. The teenage daughter Maggie' death hit me hardest. And Reading from their POV made me care about them, and I was genuinely upset when I finished the book! ✨ It was tell from many perspective which helped me understand them more.I thought it was a very intriguing and interesting way to tell their story. Knowing they were all dead didn’t diminish how important they were. It made my heartache to know they were all gone and Matt was all alone. Matt has to find a way to bring out justice for his family without getting killed. ✨ This is one of the best thriller of 2021. I loved this from the get-go.Each chapter captivated me and made me want to continue reading. I strongly recommend this book to everyone.👌 Rate:🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #everylastfearbook #alexfinlay #thrillerreads #bestbooks #bestthriller #2021goals #ebookepub #scrunchie #coffeeshots #photographybooks #flatlayphoto #fridaypost #readinglife #ereaders #bloggerslife #thrillerlover #2021bestbooks #shereadsbooks #bookstgram #bdclicks #thoughtsoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CR8-XL7Bsps/?utm_medium=tumblr

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thepearlsdailyshow · 3 years

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𝑇𝒐𝑑𝑎𝒚 𝑖𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝑏𝑖𝒓𝒕ℎ𝑑𝑎𝒚 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝐼 𝒘𝑎𝒏𝒕𝑒𝑑 𝒕𝒐 𝑘𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝒐𝑓𝑓 𝒕ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝒚 𝒘𝑖𝒕ℎ 𝑔𝒓𝑎𝒕𝑖𝒕𝒖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝑔𝒓𝑒𝑎𝒕 𝒏𝑒𝒘𝒔! 𝐼'𝒎 𝑔𝒓𝑎𝒕𝑒𝑓𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝒍𝑖𝒗𝑒 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝒕𝒐 𝑏𝑒 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝒚 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝑎𝒏𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝑑𝑒𝒓𝑓𝒖𝒍 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝑐𝒓𝑒𝑎𝒕𝑖𝒗𝑒 𝒑𝑒𝒐𝒑𝒍𝑒. 𝐹𝑖𝒓𝒔𝒕, 𝐼 𝒘𝑎𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕ℎ𝑎𝒏𝑘 @vegasmovieawards 𝑓𝒐𝒓 𝑖𝒏𝑐𝒍𝒖𝑑𝑖𝒏𝑔 @briar_film 𝑖𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑓𝑒𝒔𝒕𝑖𝒗𝑎𝒍 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝑓𝒐𝒓 𝑔𝑖𝒗𝑖𝒏𝑔 𝒖𝒔 𝑎𝒘𝑎𝒓𝑑𝒔 𝑓𝒐𝒓 "𝐵𝑒𝒔𝒕 𝑇ℎ𝒓𝑖𝒍𝒍𝑒𝒓", "𝐵𝑒𝒔𝒕 𝐴𝑐𝒕𝒓𝑒𝒔𝒔" 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝑎 "𝐵𝑒𝒔𝒕 𝑃𝒐𝒔𝒕𝑒𝒓" 𝒘𝑖𝒏 𝑓𝒐𝒓 𝒕ℎ𝑒 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝑑𝑒𝒓𝑓𝒖𝒍 @marksposato 🙌🏻𝑇ℎ𝑎𝒏𝑘 𝒚𝒐𝒖! 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝒕 𝑎 𝑔𝑖𝑓𝒕! 𝑇𝒐 𝑐𝑒𝒍𝑒𝑏𝒓𝑎𝒕𝑒, 𝐼'𝒎 𝒔ℎ𝑎𝒓𝑖𝒏𝑔 @briar_film 𝑓𝒐𝒓 𝑓𝑎𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝑑𝑎𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑓𝑎𝒏𝒑𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝒘𝑖𝒕ℎ 𝑎 𝒕𝑎𝒍𝑘𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝑖𝑔ℎ𝒕 𝑓𝒓𝒐𝒎 ℎ𝒐𝒎𝑒 𝒘ℎ𝑒𝒏 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝒕 ℎ𝒐𝒎𝑒 𝑓𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝑒𝒕 𝑎𝒕 9𝒑𝒎. 𝐼'𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒓𝑖𝒕𝑒 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝑒 𝒍𝑎𝒕𝑒𝒓 𝑏𝒖𝒕 𝐼 𝒘𝑎𝒏𝒕𝑒𝑑 𝒕𝒐 𝒔ℎ𝑎𝒓𝑒 ℎ𝒐𝒘 𝑔𝒓𝑎𝒕𝑒𝑓𝒖𝒍 𝐼 𝑎𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝑓𝑎𝒎𝑖𝒍𝒚, 𝑓𝒓𝑖𝑒𝒏𝑑𝒔 𝑎𝒏𝑑 𝒑𝑒𝑒𝒓𝒔. 𝐼𝒕'𝒔 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝒏 𝑎 𝒗𝑒𝒓𝒚 𝑔𝒐𝒐𝑑 𝒚𝑒𝑎𝒓! #briarfilm #vegasmovieawards #bestthriller #bestactress #bestposter #pearlsdailystudios #femalefilmmakers #thepearlsdailyshow https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrSmNVLoHr/?utm_medium=tumblr

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danielleurbansblog · 4 years

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@revellbooks @susanmaywarren Check out this awesome new release! #bestthriller #thriller #suspense #new #series #book1 #amazon #goodreads #goodreadschallenge2020 #reviewer #bookblogger #blogger #novel #fiction #highlyrecommended #mustreadbook https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZxJ1SgWy0/?igshid=im4253yl746k

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xanderturian · 7 years

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We just #Won multiple #Awards at @nyfilmawards with our #Shortfilm #RottenLove 🎈💫🎥🎬🎞✨🥂🍾 #BestThriller #HonorableMention #BestScore #BestActor #ActorInAnIndieFilm #IndieFilm #Actor #ActorLife #FilmAward #NYfilmawards #NewYork #Actors #ActorsLife #NewYorkFilmAwards #Acting #ActingLife

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daydreamer0078 · 4 years

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10 Best Thriller Movies of All Time You Must Watch

Thriller, Suspense, Plot Twists, Drama. These are all the genres that people love the most. There are a lot of movies released with these genres. You might've seen any of these movies. But, not all of them. Movie lovers mostly love thrillers and suspense movies. It's because those movies create curiosity and make people stick to the screen. You never get bored when you're watching the best thriller movies. You feel like your heartbeat running rapidly. Especially, some ultimate climaxes make you feel tense and worry. However, everyone likes movies with a good story with good narration. If it isn't made perfectly. Then, it wouldn't make people excited and they will be disappointed. There are only a few movies that have done perfectly with brilliant stories with amazing narration. So, we've listed 10 Thriller movies you must watch if you haven't seen it.

Memento

( IMG credit : google ) Memento was released in 2000. But still, it is one of the best thriller movies of all time. Memento movie is a non-linear narrative with a fantastic screenplay. Initially, you won't know what exactly is happening then you'll realize and understand how a screenplay is working. It is one of the best Christopher Nolan's works you should watch. At the end of the film, you will be blown away and amazed by the climax. It is also one of the greatest movie endings of all time. If you haven't watched this film. Watch this film right away. IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and more. Plot: A person with short-term memory investigates his wife's murderer. WATCH NOW

Parasite

( IMG credit : google ) Parasite is oscar winner of the best picture in 2019. It is not only a thriller movie. But, a movie with a social message, drama, and suspense. From the beginning to the ending. I assure you, you will stick to the screen till the movie ends. The movie depicts the dark aspects of society and tells the great message which makes you think for some time. Boon Joon-ho, director of Parasite, also the winner of the best director, represents the story with amazing hidden metaphors. He makes you think after you watched the film. You may want to watch it again. IMDb Rating: 8.6/10 Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-Kyun Lee, Yeo-Jeong Jo and more. Plot: A poor family ( The Kims ) inhabits rich family's ( The parks ) house with deception. But, their easy life in the house becomes a threat and faces a lot of risks. WATCH NOW

Seven

( IMG credit : google ) Seven is a crime drama thriller which blows your mind at the ending. The film starts with a normal narration and turns out to an extraordinary ending. David Fincher, who directed the best-known film zodiac and fight club is director of this film. If you have seen his films, then you should watch this film too with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman's brilliant performances. The film has a dark ending which you'll never expect and it is also one of the great movie endings. IMDb Rating: 8.6/10 Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, and more. Plot: Veteran and Rookie, two detectives tracks down the murders who uses seven deadly sins as his motive.

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Shutter Island

( IMG credit : google ) Shutter Island is one of the best thriller suspense movies of all time. The great thing about this film is the Climax. You will be blown and astonished after it is revealed. It is directed by legendary director, Martin Scorsese who made films like Goodfellas, The Wolf of the wall street, and Taxi Driver. Martin has a lot of fan base. Shutter island is all about a mystery that reveals in the ending. I think 99% never predicts the climax. Leonardo Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo made brilliant performances in this film. Watch this film right now if you're martin or Leonardo movie lover. You will enjoy it. IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, and more.. Plot: In 1954, U.S Marshal and his partner track downs criminal who is escaped from the psychiatric hospital.

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Old Boy

( IMG credit : google ) OldBoy is one of the greatest Korean films you should watch. The film is characterized by revenge, raw emotion and violence. The storyline, screenplay, cinematography, and acting are the major assets of this film. Chan-wook Park, the director made this film masterpiece by giving attention to every detail. The Plot twists and Storyline are brilliant elements that will excite you. Watch this movie, if you love Korean dramas. IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 Cast: Min-Sik Choi, Ji-Tae Yoo, Hye-Jeong Kang and more. Plot: Oh Dae-Su who is released after being imprisoned for 15 years finds his captor for vengeance. WATCH NOW

Fight Club

( IMG credit : google ) Fight Club was released in 1999. It is adapted from a book by Chuck Palahniuk. The Film explores through interesting elements of consumerism, class warfare, multiple-personality disorder, male bonding, terrorism, and anarchy. It is also one of the greatest thrillers of all time which was directed by David Fincher. The film is greatly acclaimed for its visual production, cinematography, screenplay, theme, and performance made by Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. IMDb Rating: 8.8/10 Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, and more. Plot: An insomniac office worker and a soap salesmen form an underground fight club. WATCH NOW

The Silence of the Lambs

( IMG credit : google ) The Silence of the Lambs was released in 1991. It is one of the best horror-thriller movies you shouldn't miss. This film has a separate fan base and many people like to consider Classic. The film received accolades for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay which makes you watch it eagerly. It gives you a classic cinematic experience that you haven't seen before. Watch this if you love horror-thriller films. IMDb Rating: 8.6/10 Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney and more. Plot: A young F.B.I. agent must receive the advice of an imprisoned killer to catch another serial killer, who skins his women victims. WATCH NOW

The Usual Suspects

( IMG credit : google ) The Usual Suspects was released in 1995. Still, it is one of the greatest thriller movies of all time. The films start at a slow pace in developing and then, it turns out to a great ending which makes you astonishing. Many people claim it is one of the greatest cinema endings of all time. You may not understand the film in the first watch. You may need to watch the second time to comprehend the full story of the film. I'm sure you'll blow by the twist at the ending. The film has greatly acclaimed for performances of actors, narration and storyline. IMDb Rating: 8.5/10 Cast: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, and more. Plot: Kint, the survivor of massacre tells interrogator complex events leading him to a horrific battle on a boat. WATCH NOW

Black Swan

( IMG credit : google ) Black Swan is one of the best thriller movies that you have to watch. It's a psychological tragic thriller that may make you contemplate for some time. Natalie Portman made a brilliant performance in this film. The film also received accolades for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Director, and won Best Actress. If you watch something dark and tragic. Watch this film right away. IMDb Rating: 8.0/10 Cast: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, and more. Plot: After winning the lead role in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" performance, a dedicated dancer struggles to preserve her mental stability. WATCH NOW

The Prestige

( IMG credit : google ) The Prestige is one of the greatest suspense thrillers of all time. Especially, the plot twists and performances are the major assets of this film. Especially, the twist at the ending blows you away. It is directed by Christopher Nolan ( master of non-linear narrative ) also throws a worth watching and brilliant screenplay to the film with extraordinary Huge Jackman and Christian Bale performances. The film is also considered to be one of the best under-rated films. If you're a Nolan fan, watch this film now. IMDb Rating: 8.5/10 Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and more. Plot: Two Rival Magicians outsmart each other by their performances after a dreadful incident. WATCH NOW Honorable Mentions: The Departed WATCH NOW Prisoners WATCH NOW ZodiacWATCH NOW The Sixth SenseWATCH NOW Although, these are the best thriller you can watch and enjoy. Let me know what's your opinion and your favorite movie. You can drop down your suggestions if you would like to. if you haven’t watched some best 2019 films and want to finish them. Check out : 10 Best Movies in 2019 that You Must Watch If You Haven’t Seen If you're looking for Netflix series : 10 Best Netflix Series of All Time If you love the genre of action and adventures : 5 Best Action Movies and Franchises of All Time You Must Watch I think this is the perfect time for you to start MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE : MCU Timeline – Watch Every Marvel Movie in Order You might be interested in these articles, Have a look at them. 16 Most Anticipated Movies in 2020 Best Hollywood Movies of 2019 that You Must See! MARVEL PHASE 5 MOVIES AND SHOWS LIST HUGE MARVEL PHASE 5 LEAK – MCU Read the full article

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silentcinemauk · 5 years

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You can not overlook the fact that you need distraction once in a while and fire up yourself. Thriller movies will give you the excitement you desire. There are so many reasons why the thriller movie is one of the best genres of film you can consider. They are suspense-filled, and they elicit certain moods that will make you thirst for more. The feeling of excitement, anxiety, and fear all in one. A good thriller movie will give you thrills and chills. It will keep you at the edge of your seat throughout the whole show and make your blood rush. Now are you aroused and ready to indulge in the best thriller movies you can stream? The list is endless, but here are 20 top thriller movies for you to stream anywhere and anytime. Know more, https://thesilentcinemacompany.co.uk/blog/best-thrillers-to-stream-right-now/

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jmsvlstrs · 6 years

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ALBERTO CORREDOR (@albertocorredor.film) with his 2018 HollyShorts Best Thriller Award for his short film BAGHEAD. • Full interview and information coming soon to www.JEANBOOKNERD.com • @hollyshorts 2018 • #albertocorredor #baghead #bagheadmovie #bagheadshortfilm #bagheadfilm #bestthriller #bestthrilleraward #winner #hollyshorts #hsff18 #jeanbooknerd #jbnmedia #interview #filmmaker #director #writer #producer #filmfestival #film #filmfest #festival #movies #shortfilm #redcarpet #hollywood • View all the HollyShorts 2018 JeanBookNerd pictures at www.jamesvallesteros.com/hsff18 (at Hollywood) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnrs-R-Fu0h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g639cyqj4eud

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arnoldjaime13 · 3 years

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Blog Tour- THE ANCESTOR by @LeeMatthewG With An Excerpt & A #Giveaway! @RockstarBkTours

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE ANCESTOR by Lee Matthew Goldberg Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: THE ANCESTOR

Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg

Pub. Date: August 21, 2020

Publisher: All Due Respect

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 348

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike. After following this other man home, he witnesses a wife and child that brings forth a rush of memories of his own wife and child, except he's certain they do not exist in modern times-but from his life in the late 1800s. After recalling his name is Wyatt, he worms his way into his doppelganger Travis Barlow's life. Memories become unearthed the more time he spends, making him believe that he'd been frozen after coming to Alaska during the Gold Rush and that Travis is his great-great grandson. Wyatt is certain gold still exists in the area and finding it with Travis will ingratiate himself to the family, especially with Travis's wife Callie, once Wyatt falls in love. This turns into a dangerous obsession affecting the Barlows and everyone in their small town, since Wyatt can't be tamed until he also discovers the meaning of why he was able to be preserved on ice for over a century.

A meditation on love lost and unfulfilled dreams, The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner in present day Alaska and a historical adventure about the perilous Gold Rush expeditions where prospectors left behind their lives for the promise of hope and a better future. The question remains whether it was all worth the sacrifice….

Praise for THE ANCESTOR:

“A story that blends the familiar and the supernatural in a manner that calls Stephen King’s work to mind. That said, Goldberg’s book possesses a flavor all its own—a distinctive mélange of the sincere and the strange.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Lee Matthew Goldberg is an animal—there is no other way to say it. His prose is heavyweight ambitious, as visceral as a sweaty-toothed dog at your throat. He evokes Robert Louis Stevenson as much as he does a modern thriller novelist. And I’ll be honest: I expected a crime novel, but I got a spell-binding epic, an epistolary revelation, a tale as rich as a paying gold mine. The Ancestor is more than a novel. It’s an ode to the rich tradition of adventure storytelling…seasoned with ample spice of love and violence and greed.” —Matt Phillips, author of Countdown and Know Me from Smoke

“In The Ancestor, Lee Matthew Goldberg masterfully weaves together a story involving family and violence set against the backdrop of an unforgiving Alaska of both past and present.” —Andrew Davie, author of Pavement and Ouroboros

“From the icy opening battle of man vs. wolf, you feel yourself in the hands of a master storyteller and that feeling never lets up.” —SJ Rozan, bestselling author of Paper Son

“This thrilling novel is rich in descriptions of the vast, snowy, and deadly wilderness of Alaska; it ably captures the type of person who chases gold.” —Foreword Reviews

“Beautifully written, and capturing the unforgiving grit of Gold Rush Alaska, Lee Matthew Goldberg’s The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner with an ache in its heart. I’m a huge fan.” —Roz Nay, author of Hurry Home and Our Little Secret

“A suspenseful historical thriller.” —Indie Reader

“One of the year’s best thrillers. Blake Crouch fans will love Goldberg’s Alaskan opus.” —BestThrillers

Excerpt

Dead & Bloated – Stone Temple Pilots

My sister Kristen died the same day as the actor River Phoenix, October 31st, 1993, he from a drug overdose in the middle of the night outside the Viper Room, her on an early morning run through Laurel Canyon, two days before her seventeenth birthday—and a happy fucking Halloween to me. There I was, dressed up in costume as D’arcy, the bassist from Smashing Pumpkins: oversized baggy striped sweater, dyed blond hair, a dab of red lips and blue eye shadow, and a broken bass guitar slung around my shoulder that I didn’t know how to play anyway, watching the news where I saw River’s lean body, which I had imagined climbing on top of me multiple times, being hauled away on a stretcher, when the doorbell rang and a police officer asked if my parents were home.

“Er…no,” I said, running through my mind the millions of bad things I may have done. That strappy dress I’d shoplifted, the bag of dirt I sold to a freshman pretending it was weed.

“Are you a relative of Kristen Sullivan?”

Kristen? What could the police want with perfect Kristen?

“Yeah. Her sister.”

“I am sorry to tell you this, but your sister has died.”

I truly believed that if I slammed the door on the cop, what they said wouldn’t be real. That’s how mental I was. A montage of River Phoenix appeared on the television. Stand By Me, Running on Empty, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, and as the gay hustler in My Own Private Idaho, where I truly fell in love. I didn’t know if I was crying for him or Kristen, all I knew was my hands were blackened from the mascara stains.

The police officer went on to tell me what happened. Kristen was going for a run when she collapsed. A neighbor called the paramedics, but she was DOA likely from a brain aneurysm, the same thing that took my grandfather when he was super young too.

My own brain felt weighted, as if both their afflictions had insidiously traveled down the street and filtered into my cranium. Kristen and I were so close in age, Irish twins just eleven months apart, and the horror of thinking this might happen to me next became too much to deal.

“Where are your parents?” the police officer asked, sober and to the point, bringing me back from the brink of insanity. “Is there a number we can reach them at?”

Dad was surely at work, specializing in finance litigation, whatever the hell that meant, usually into the office by 7:00 a.m. and home sometimes around midnight, a ghost who occasionally graced us with his presence. Mom was a secretary in an ad agency, possibly still home. I heard a voice calling down from up above asking who it was. Mom’s face emerged at the top of the stairs. She had a hair crimper still smoking in her hand and wore a blouse with thick shoulder pads. Her nose twitched and then she sneezed. I couldn’t watch her heart break too so I just ran upstairs.

Instead of my room, I bolted into Kristen’s who kept it immaculate. Posters of Jason Priestly from 90210 adorned the walls. I was more of a Luke Perry gal with his bad-boy sideburns and scowl, and a receding hairline that I longed to stroke as he’d nestle his angular head into my lap so I could stare into his brooding eyes.

I flopped on Kristen’s bed, smelling the Sunflowers perfume still clinging to her pillow, and stared around her room. Sports trophies galore: track and field and volleyball, even basketball, which was her secondary sport. An Ace of Base poster taped to the ceiling. She would blast “The Sign,” and I’d reply by turning up Soundgarden or Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Smashing Pumpkins or Mother Love Bone, or any kind of real music to drown out the shitty pop shit she loved so much. That was Kristen, a pop song: silky blond hair, hella popular at school but never a mean girl. She had so many friends I could never keep track of them all while I just had two: Winter and Jeremy, our super-exclusive trio of burnouts, terrible grades, and contempt for everyone else who pretended like they were in a 90210 episode. If I’d ever be prevented from graduating, no one would chant “Nico Sullivan Graduates” like they did for frog-faced Donna Martin.

Yes, my name is Nico, short for Nicole but no one has called me that since I was a little kid. Too pedestrian. Nico smokes long cigarettes while Nicole liked ponies. Nico uses her fake ID to get into clubs and listen to hella angry music where sweaty dudes with long hair in flannel shirts rage about the government and our lame parents and the War on Drugs and the AIDS crisis and old George Bush who’d finally been replaced by saxophone playing cool guy Bill Clinton—who I’d totally do—and then the two of us would share like five post-coital Big Macs because I know he’d be into that.

Kristen’s dead.

The thought stayed trapped between my ears. It had floated away momentarily only to come racing back with venom. My beautiful sister who I barely spent any time with, who I honestly resented because she didn’t have a muffin top body like mine and pasty skin and a smile that showed too much of her upper gums. I pictured her lying lonely on the ground when the aneurysm struck. Could she tell what was going on? Did she see the light as it took her away? Was she thinking of me?

God, how narcissistic I could be.

I whipped out a cigarette and lit it out the window, puffed away and contemplated leaping outside, two dead daughters in one horror of a day for my folks. I knew they’d mourn Kristen more. I was an afterthought, an oh right Nico’s there too, more of a ghost in the house than even my dad. I’d spend as much time away from home as possible, escaping with Winter and Jeremy.

I carefully listened at the door to hear if the cop was still there. I heard Mom weeping, dark sounds coming up from deep within her soul. I put out my cigarette and rushed out of Kristen’s room. Grabbing my Walkman, I booked it out of the house before anyone could stop me, not wanting to deal with Mom trying to comfort me or vice-versa. Headphones on, listening to my Stone Temple Pilots tape as the song “Dead & Bloated” shattered my eardrums. I turned up the volume to the max as the song took over the world.

I hit rewind and played the song over and over, singing it at the top of my lungs, causing our neighbor Mr. Ferguson to waddle outside in his backyard and give me the side eye because of our low fences. But then more police cruisers wailed up the block and pulled in front of our lawn and I was forced to confront my sad, sad reality again.

About Lee:

Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels THE ANCESTOR, THE MENTOR, THE DESIRE CARD and SLOW DOWN. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the Prix du Polar. His first YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN is forthcoming in 2021 along with a sci-fi novel ORANGE CITY. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Underwood Press and others. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe, dedicated to publishing fiction that’s outside-of-the-box. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at LeeMatthewGoldberg.com

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