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Chapters (50)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PART ONE: SHOTGUN GRAVY
  6. Sometimes she wakes…
  7. CHAPTER ONE
  8. CHAPTER TWO
  9. CHAPTER THREE
  10. CHAPTER FOUR
  11. CHAPTER FIVE
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT
  15. CHAPTER NINE
  16. CHAPTER TEN
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  18. PART TWO: BAIT DOG
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. PART THREE: THE FARM
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  37. PART FOUR: KISSING FIRE
  38. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  43. PART FIVE: BAIT GIRL
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  47. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  48. EPILOGUE: THE MESSAGE
  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Whitey jumps up in her lap. Almost knocks her off the chair. On the laptop screen she sees his big doofusy, droopy face. One eye missing and one ear cocked away from the other in a permanent forty-five-degree angle. Little starburst scar above his gone eye. But he’s got a sloppy grin on his face and a goopy string of drool hanging from his jowls, and he starts panting like the happiest dog on Planet Earth. He licks her cheek. She kisses his nose.

“You bad guys and bullies got it real good right now. You have all the power. But that’s over. Done. For you, it doesn’t get better. In fact, from here on out?”

She offers the camera a middle finger.

“It gets a whole lot worse.”

She nods at the camera, then hits the space bar again.

The red light goes away. Recording, over.

“We good?” she asks Shane.

He comes, checks the laptop, gives her a thumbs-up. “We got it. You nailed it. I’ll get that on YouTube by the end of the week. Just in time for the new school year.”

“Cool. Want a celebration cookie?” she asks, pointing to the plate on the bed.

Shane makes a face like he just ate a lemon rubbed in dog dirt.

They both laugh, and Whitey lays his head on Atlanta’s shoulder.

Everything feels a little bit all right.

For now.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to thank everyone who supported this Kickstarter way back when. Because without you, this book just plain doesn’t exist. Maybe the world needs Atlanta Burns, maybe it doesn’t. But she sure needed you, so thank you.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photo © Michelle Wendig

Chuck Wendig is the author of The Heartland Trilogy and the Atlanta Burns series, as well as numerous novels for adults. He is also a game designer and screenwriter. He cowrote the short film Pandemic, the feature film HiM, and the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus. Chuck lives in “Pennsyltucky” with his family. He blogs at www.terribleminds.com.

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