A Perfect Day, with My Mr Perfect

This is a short story based on the last day of the character of Susie Salmon from Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones. The purpose of this is to create a lead up to Susie's murder as this was absent in the novel. Mr Harvey (the murderer) manipulates his innocent public image to lure Susie to him so that he can sexually abuse her and later murder her. Susie had her suspicions about Mr Harvey prior to her assault, but she never heeded the warnings. Susie attempts to run away from Mr Harvey, but he pulls her leg down causing her to hit her head on the floor and dying. This diary entry is written in her perspective, while she is stuck in the in-between. It is through her recollection of her last day that we are able to understand and see the incidents leading up to her death.