Blond Hair, Blue Eyes A Short Story: Karin Slaughter

This was the prelude to "All The Pretty Girls" Julia's side of the story. This story shows Julia in a different light as it is told from her point of view. (The other story was told from her sister's view and there was a lot of speculation on what happened.) Julia's story starts on the day she went missing. She widens the reader's view on the killer as Julia notices a homeless woman has gone missing and is said to have been last seen entering a van. The idea is planted that there were more girls murdered than accounted for. Julia is portrayed as a woman who is deeply devoted to helping others and improving the world. She is a Virgin and has a boyfriend who she realistically frets over, scared that the relationship means more to her. She goes out drinking with friends that night and takes a drink from an older Man. Later as she walks home she realizes there must have been something in the drink and tries to make it to her parent's who are at a party nearby. A man pulls up in a van and though she doesn't know him, she knows she has seen him a lot lately wherever she has been. He then punches her in the face and the story ends.