When the Light Went Out

Bridget Morrissey

Chapters (46)

Front Cover

Also by Bridget Morrissey

What You Left Me

Title Page

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Morrissey, Bridget, author.

Title: When the light went out / Bridget Morrissey.

Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2019] | Summary: Seven friends reunite five years after their friend’s accidental shooting death when a box of letters from her are found.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018057113 | (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: | CYAC: Death--Fiction. | Friendship--Fiction. | Memory--Fiction. | Letters--Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M675 Wj 2019 | DDC [Fic]--dc23

Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Part One

July 11

Part Two

July 11

Part Three

Acknowledgments

Excerpt from What You Left Me

About the Author

Back Cover

In loving memory of Elizabeth Eileen O’Connor.

(January 1990–January 2018)

It’s you I see in the stars.

Part One

Pliable Truths

1

Somebody somewhere decided that every five years, tragedies must be made extra important again.

For the first celebration of life, the Marley Bricket Memorial Committee printed Marley’s freshman year photo onto one of those durable foam boards designed for real estate agents to stick in lawns. At every subsequent event, the committee would prop foam Marley up on a tripod next to the food. The dust that coated her told the truth of the dank storage room where they tucked her away for 364 days of rest and irrelevance. Her glossy, level eyes said there was a better place for her to be, but she’d been forced into this. If she could smile through it, so could I.