Fiction Packet 3

I found the story "The Falling Girl," to be very interesting. I interpreted it to be about girls racing to grow up, yet not knowing what they are racing to. The main character says, "They're waiting for me down there, I can't stop." In the beginning, she is excited to get to the bottom of her fall, but as she nears the end "her heart tightens."

The story "August 25, 1983" was a dream of a writer and his later suicide. He talks with his future self about what he accomplishes in his life. The man begins to get "irritated" talking to himself because he does not like who he is and is afraid to later come to the point of suicide.