

John Green
Winner of the Printz Award for Looking For Alaska, John keeps a daily blog. His second novel, "An Abundance of Katherines," is about a boy who has been dumped by 19 Katherines.

You keep running, wanting to get home as fast as possible. As you turn a corner, though, you realize that you were so upset you were running in the wrong direction. In fact, you were running in a circle. You’re now back at the house where the party is taking place, blood-red make-up dripping down your tear-stained face.
“Run another victory lap, zombie!” someone calls out, and you obey him, running as fast as you can, in the right direction this time. You’re not going to another party for a while.