Flannery Culp, a world-weary high school senior, is primed to take on the few remaining obstacles that stand between her and the rest of her life. If only things hadnt gotten out of control and she had stayed away from the absinthe, then she wouldnt be a topic on daytime talk shows or incarcerated. n nFlannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, theyre calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. Its true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And its true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that shes not a murderer at all -- shes a murderess.n