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HANDWRITTEN NOTE
Dear Mom and Dad,
If you’re reading this, I’ve already left. I’m going to the end of the
world and beyond. I won’t say anything more, because you won’t
believe me and I already know what you’ll say. Dad, you’ll say that I
should live more in reality, and Mom, you’ll say that I should take
deep breaths and not make hasty decisions, but I have no choice. I
have to go.
Maybe this comes as a surprise to you because you think that on
the surface I seem fine. But surfaces can be deceiving. I feel like I am
meant for something more. I’m sorry because I know this will be
scary, but I don’t belong here. I promise I’ll try to come back in the
future. Maybe then I can make it better for all of us.
Sincerely,
Liza
—
This note was found the morning of March 20, tucked between pages 11
and 12 of a well-worn copy of Fairy Tale Book One: The Wishing Well.
EXCERPT FROM FAIRY TALE BOOK ONE: THE WISHING WELL
By Annabelle Tobin. Published by Rotterdam Press, 2004. Pages 11–12.
…and as Ciara wandered out beyond the edge of her town, she
happened into a field. It was an ordinary field that she had passed
through a thousand times before. Only this time, it was different. For
at the center of the field, there was a well.
Ciara walked closer, inspecting the old-fashioned water well.
It looked ancient, with a rotting wooden roof, a fraying rope attached
to the pulley, and lichen-covered stones at the base. How curious,
Ciara thought as she looked about. Was it possible that she had never
noticed it before? Or that she was crossing a different field than she
thought?
She approached the well, peering over the lip into the abyss. Far
below, she could see the silvery shimmer of the water. But it did not
make sense to her that it was silvery. How could moonlight shine
upward from a well so deep?
Perhaps it is a wishing-well, Ciara thought, and the instant the
notion occurred to her, she felt it to be true. Ciara was twelve years
old, and hardly prone to such fanciful thoughts, but this one fit her
like a glove. Such was the pain of the fight with her mother and such
was her desire for escape that she leaned her head into the cavern of
the well. The sounds of the world were drowned out and she was
swallowed up by the echoey swish of the water lapping down below.
“I wish I could escape this world,” she whispered into the void,
and then shouted, “I wish I were gone forever!” The words
reverberated…then evaporated into nothingness, like every other wish
she’d ever made.
She sighed in resignation and started to push herself back up. But
in the process, a stone came loose on the ancient well and fell inward.
Ciara’s weight oofed down upon it, and the wall crumbled, sending
Ciara tumbling awkwardly into the hole.
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