-dontbreakme- Kharlie Stone -01.11.2016- -

The email body is short:

I hit send before I can talk myself out of it. -DontBreakMe- Kharlie Stone -01.11.2016-

I open a new email. I type:

The file’s metadata leads to a case I’d buried. A foster kid shuffled between homes like a library book no one wanted to check out. A string of petty thefts, a juvenile record that read like a cry for help typed in all caps. Then, a disappearance. Then, nothing. The email body is short: I hit send

But here she is. Kharlie. Unbroken.

I click anyway. The file opens to a single photograph. a disappearance. Then