Death

Kristin Matthews was a 19 year old sophomore at a large university in California. She was 5'7 tall, with brown hair and gray eyes. She lived just off campus in an older complex of townhouse apartments. On this particular Tuesday; she had attended her normal schedule of classes followed by a lab. After the lab; she had met several of her girlfriends at a nearby restaurant/bar the group hung out at. After some food and chat; Kristin excused herself from the group to go home and study for Semester 1 Exams that would be starting tomorrow. She wanted to do well...

I pulled away from the telescope momentarily to consider my sanity, and realised that I was quite hungry; it had only been six hours since I ate a truly hearty steak--the last one my freezer was stocked with--but the rumbling could not have been a lie. I abandoned the balcony to arrive almost immediately in the vicinity of my fridge, which was flung open--it was not I who left it this way. Cautiously, I listened; I glanced about and, finding nothing else amiss, I approached the cold, exposed racks. Nothing was gone or out of place among my neat assortment of...