The Girl With No Name

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A nineteen-year-old boy died tonight after being fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Highland Square. The teenager was found in the street just after 5 a.m. by a resident walking his dog. He was transported to Akron General Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead. His name has not been released pending notification of his family. There were no surveillance cameras near the intersection where the hit and run occurred. Police are urging anyone with information to come forward.

MONDAY

The television blared from her living room. Josie could hear it from her bedroom on the second floor of the house, even with the door closed. As the first notes of the theme song of WYEP—the local news station—drifted up she sighed, gathered up the wedding magazines on her nightstand and headed downstairs.

Her fiancé Luke was sprawled on her couch, his tall, muscular frame taking up almost the entire space. A foam takeout container straddled his lap, and from it he shoveled French fries into his mouth. Both feet rested on her coffee table, almost touching the stack of mock wedding invitations she’d been trying to get him to look at for the last two weeks. His eyes were glued to the television where the twelve o’clock news broadcast nonstop coverage of the Interstate Killer’s trial, which had started that morning.

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