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Debbie Roth
is 86% done
Is it possible Elliott was here that same summer Kylie disappeared? Is it possible he did something to hurt her, if not on purpose then by accident? I’m so lost in thought that I never hear the shower water turn off…“What are you looking at?” My throat tightens…“I was just mindlessly scrolling.” “It didn’t look mindless. It looked pretty intent”…“No, not intent. Just out of it. I didn’t sleep at all last night..”
— Apr 23, 2026 08:33PM
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Debbie Roth
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Tomorrow I’ll…ask him what happened that night. I’ll tell him what Ms. Dahl saw, how she identified him digging that hole in the cemetery…even if they exhume Kylie’s body, any forensic evidence will be gone by now.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:43PM
Debbie Roth
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How she said she watched Daniel dig that hole in the cemetery with an energy and determination she’s never seen before or since from him. I looked up at the time, reading the expression on her face and trying to decide if there was some hidden meaning in there, but there wasn’t, which made it all the more ironic. Because it wasn’t Daniel she saw.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:39PM
Debbie Roth
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Ms. Dahl or whatever. She was laying flowers on an unmarked grave. Maybe that’s where their daughter is. Maybe she’s who’s buried there.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:38PM
Debbie Roth
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Reese: He pulls me through some field by the hand. I’m crying. Tears flood my eyes, spill over and down my face...Now It’s uncomfortable in the crawl space. It’s maybe two feet tall, which is not enough room to ever sit up.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:37PM
Debbie Roth
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I start to search for people who kill, needing—desperate—to see some sort of studies or theories on why people kill and the types of people who do to reassure myself that no one in this room would do such a thing, but as I start to type, p-e, a list of previous search results come up, including Pearl Lake depth, which gives me pause...Why would Elliott ever need to know its depth?
— Apr 23, 2026 08:27PM
Debbie Roth
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We need to talk about this. I asked, Talk about what? He said, About why you don’t trust me. I do trust you, I said, but it’s not true. He’s keeping something from me. I think about the blood on his shoes, about the picture of Reese on his iPad, and how Emily said she wanted to talk to him that night before we left.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:25PM
Debbie Roth
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Reese: There is blood on the floor. I don’t see it until morning, when the sun comes up…I didn’t sleep on the porch. I didn’t sleep at all. Once Daniel was gone, I closed and locked the front door, and then I lay on the sofa with my eyes wide, staring at the front door, knowing that just because it was locked didn’t mean Daniel didn’t have a key. He does. He has a master key to all the cottages.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:19PM
Debbie Roth
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I don’t see at first that the door has popped open all on its own. I don’t see anything through the thick water vapor, not until I reach for a towel on the toilet seat with nothing on to find Wyatt standing on the other side of the door, looking in at me through the crack.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:16PM
Debbie Roth
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On the way out, I walk again past the picture of the three of them, Sam, Joanna and Kylie, on the fireplace mantel. My eyes run over it, that vaguely familiar, elusive thing still sitting on the tip of my tongue, though, no matter how hard I try, my mind can’t retrieve it.
— Apr 23, 2026 08:15PM
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Reese: Because when I get mad enough, I feel hot, like I actually glow, a redness creeping into the periphery of my vision until everything I see is bloodred. When I’m mad, I actually explode...Thinking everyone would be better off if I was gone. If I was dead.
— Apr 23, 2026 09:56AM
