The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

Author:Stephen Graham Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: 2014-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Absolutely silent on Izzy’s face, even though the whole gym’s screaming.

The betrayal, the shock, her head shaking no. Her POV watching mummy-faced Jake walk out like he didn’t deserve that intro, that he was just doing his job, the applause swelling louder and louder, everybody standing to do it.

He hops up onto the stage, slips an arm around Lindsay’s waist.

“Hey, hey, really,” he says, “I was just fucking around, right? Oops,” Mrs. Graves trying to blink this profanity away, clapping louder as if she can erase it with school spirit.

Jake manages to wave all the clapping down, then steps away—we can tell this is all scripted; the revulsion is Izzy’s and ours both—presents Lindsay, who raises her shoulders as if this is a departure.

“Real heroes, they don’t fuck around,” he says, and, reaches behind her for a rope that should just be for gym class, for climbing.

But it’s been repurposed.

Now what it does is dislodge something big and bulky up in the rafters.

Instead of getting to see it at first, we watch the crowd’s reaction.

It’s mostly screaming. Some of it real, actual scared screaming. Then back to

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