Go Ask Alice

This could happen to anyone.

In 1968, a fifteen-year-old girl begins documenting her life in a diary, capturing the fragile intensity of adolescence - crushes, insecurities, family tension, and a longing to belong. When her father’s new academic job forces the family to relocate, she struggles to adjust, finding brief comfort in a friendship with a girl named Beth. But a visit back to her hometown changes everything: at a party, she unknowingly takes LSD, igniting a spiral into experimentation. What begins as curiosity quickly deepens into dependence, as she chases escape through drugs, risky relationships, and a growing detachment from her former self. Her world fractures further when betrayal, exploitation, and trauma leave her unmoored, pushing her into a transient life drifting between cities, dangerous situations, and fleeting illusions of freedom. Despite moments of clarity - returning home, attempting sobriety, and reconnecting with her family - the pull of addiction and social pressure proves relentless. After a forced relapse and psychological breakdown, she is hospitalized, where she begins to piece herself back together. Upon release, she makes a genuine effort to rebuild her life, forming healthier relationships and choosing connection over isolation. For the first time, she imagines a future beyond her diary, deciding to stop writing and instead face the world openly. Yet in a haunting epilogue, that fragile hope is shattered: only weeks later, she is found dead from a drug overdose, its cause uncertain - leaving behind her diary as both a warning and a deeply personal record of a life consumed too soon.

Story added by nickienicks on April 14, 2026