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14 Reasons Why

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Artwork: Samet Taşdemir

  • Joined Oct 2023
  • Published Books 1

The clerk takes the package. The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago;
rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. But now
addressed with a new name. The next name on Hannah Baker’s list.
“Baker’s dozen,” I mumble. Then I feel disgusted for even noticing it.
“Excuse me?”
I shake my head. “How much is it?”
She places the box on a rubber pad, then punches a sequence on her keypad.
I set my cup of gas-station coffee on the counter and glance at the screen. I pull a few bills from my
wallet, dig some coins out of my pocket, and place my money on the counter.
“I don’t think the coffee’s kicked in yet,” she says. “You’re missing a dollar.”
I hand over the extra dollar, then rub the sleep from my eyes. The coffee’s lukewarm when I take a sip,
making it harder to gulp down. But I need to wake up somehow.
Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get
through today.
“It should arrive at this address tomorrow,” she says. “Maybe the day after tomorrow.” Then she drops
the box into a cart behind her.
I should have waited till after school. I should have given Jenny one final day of peace.
Though she doesn’t deserve it.
When she gets home tomorrow, or the next day, she’ll find a package on her doorstep. Or if her mom
or dad or someone else gets there first, maybe she’ll find it on her bed. And she’ll be excited. I was
excited. A package with no return address? Did they forget, or was it intentional? Maybe from a secret
admirer?
“Do you want your receipt?” the clerk asks.
I shake my head.
A small printer clicks one out anyway. I watch her tear the slip across the serrated plastic and drop it
into a wastebasket.
There’s only one post office in town. I wonder if the same clerk helped the other people on the list,
those who got this package before me. Did they keep their receipts as sick souvenirs?

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