Bethany was fifteen years old and always dreamt of becoming a News Reader.
She thought, if it ever happened, that she would change her name to "Renee Ruth" because, to Bethany, that name sounded powerful, authoritative and sexy. It also suggested a good deal of truthful, grass-roots level reporting that so many other News Readers were sorely lacking.
Bethany would sometimes use her computer to Google images of News Readers. She would Photoshop out their faces and Photoshop in her own.
Sometimes, she would stare at her Photoshop creations for hours. One time, she stared at them for over two days without sleeping or eating.
When Bethany was 19, she was on the News.
She had used a rusty old rake that she found lodged in a hay-bale just off the Southern Highway to hurt some people from her old school that she didn't like.
Some of them were more than hurt.
The end.
