"It was a horror story, a mystery and slasher flick really, because everyone died horribly except for the baby who crawled away into the woods with the implication she would starve to death with no one to care for her."

Am I the only one who thinks that doesn't actually sound like it'd be an especially good story? It seems like something that was made dark and gloomy purely for shock value. And granted, she has the excuse that she was a middle-schooler at the time, but...there isn't even any self-deprecation of the "That was my first foray into writing, thank goodness I'm much better now" variety. It kinda comes across that she thinks she was always a perfect writer, and that the DARK MAN, DARK material she puts into her stories makes them better by its mere inclusion. I see that every so often and it's one of my personal pet peeves.