Social Suicide
Halliday GemmaTwittercide: the killing of one human being by another while the victim is in the act of tweeting.
Call me crazy, but I figured writing for the Herbert Hoover High Homepage
would be a pretty sweet gig. Pad the resume for college applications,
get a first look at the gossip column, spend some time ogling the
paper's brooding bad-boy editor, Chase Erikson. But on my first big
story, things went . . . a little south. What should have been a normal
interview with Sydney Sanders turned into me discovering the homecoming
queenhopeful dead in her pool. Electrocuted while Tweeting. Now, in
addition to developing a reputation as HHH's resident body finder, I'm
stuck trying to prove that Sydney's death wasn't suicide.
I'm
starting to long for the days when my biggest worry was whether the
cafeteria was serving pizza sticks or Tuesday Tacos. . . .