In the process they uncover a nest of dirty small-town secrets, the sordid truth of Clarissa’s relationship with her charismatic boyfriend, and a high school art teacher turned small-town figurehead who had a very good reason for wanting Clarissa dead. Over twenty years later, Oreville high-school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast, determined to unravel the story of what-or who-happened to this rural urban legend. Despite the efforts of internet sleuths and true-crime aficionados, Clarissa is never found-dead or alive.

But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. And thanks to Clarissa’s beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her-who all have something to hide. In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. He's like someone from another world, but you so desperately want to get lost in his eyes whenever you make eye contact.īook Blurb: Perfect for fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa is a gripping novel about two friends who start a true crime podcast-with dangerous consequences. His pieces are always picked for gallery shows and he always gets offers to buy his pieces. He's seemingly always seen in the studio at every point of the day- he's there when you show up for your 9am class- he's there before you go to lunch and he's there after and you think he never took a lunch break but you overhear him and apparently he did- you stay late in your own studio and finally head out at 1am, passing the ceramics studio to find Jamil among the students still not packing up to leave for the night.

And at the very top are the members of the Ceramics Guild, which he is a part of. And that gives him a certain air to him- the ceramics students (those who are good at it) are seen as the cream of the crop- the top students who art the best. Is he majoring in it or is he just into it? People don't know and don't care, he's great at it. Jamil being one of the best ceramic students. A show that also hasn’t bought into the kind of insidious PR to reel in queer fans by making over the top announcements about certain “bisexual” or “pansexual” characters, who are then never actually shown in same sex relationships, or announcements about minor characters in big budget movies who may be allowed a “gay moment” which is overhyped to the extreme when said moment is a blink and you miss it laughable excuse at keeping us queer fans placated whilst we are told over and over again that our existences aren’t meant for certain spaces and clearly not on the silver screen. A show that was marketed for the mainstream as just a silly pirate comedy and not another LGBTQ nische for that specific category on the streaming sites, kept shoved out of the limelight so it doesn’t offend the mainstreams more homophobic tendencies. Whilst there have been other shows made about queer characters, it is so rare to actually find a show that has been made with us in mind that isn’t specifically about a queer persons struggle in a homophobic world, about coming out, about fucking AIDS or some other dramatic bullshit where we die in the end. The level of disbelief and shock involved is so ubiquitous it’s actually really sad how much we have been conditioned to think that such a thing isn’t possible. While they were stumbling back from you, you took the chance to rip the seams cutting off the movement of your arms and legs, making it easier to rip off the sleeves and pant legs of your jumpsuit. You reached down to a knife strapped to your thigh and slashed out around you, cutting and slicing some of the guards, spraying blood into the air and floor. Next, the pants were ripped off and tied around the neck of a man who charged you, pulling it tight until he went limp in your arms and slumped to the floor. You growled, the frustration getting unbearable, and ripped the shirt you were wearing off, wrapping the torn fabric around a man’s arm and using his trapped hand to flip him over your shoulder. You were getting sweaty and hot and you could feel the excess fabric slowing you down. Irritation grew as you fought off the seeming infinite flow of people moving in on you. You fought back their attacks, managing to keep the guards from landing a hit on your body while staying close enough to use their bodies as cover from the gunfire.

Mugen archive benjamin wadsworth