I Was Real

Attiga, Virginia, is known for two things. One, you can get just about anything fried and it always tastes better when you eat it on the pier. Two- the dark month. In August of 2006, 31 kids went missing without a trace. Each day, one child was taken in the night. No sign of forced entry, no struggle, no nothing.

I, Elloise Mantukett, am one of those children.

The only problem, I don't remember any of it. I have a life of memories that people tell me never existed. A house I never lived in. A school I never attended. Parents that aren't real, a boyfriend that wasn't real either

Things get real messy when that boyfriend that never existed shows up too. A boy that was also taken during the dark month. He has the same memories as I do, the memories that aren't real. The memories of me that we never shared.

Finding out the truth is hard when everybody is lying to you.