Alicia Atkins
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1,217 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Alicia Atkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It took me weeks to digest the whole thing.
I'd made a ritual out of turning its pages.
A series of rules to extend and fetishize the experience.
One.
Only lift the board when no one else is home.
2.
Only read in natural light or by candlelight.
No electricity can touch the pages.
3.
Tell no one about the diary.
4.
Always put it back just the way you found it that first day.
His name was Bertrand, and he killed people.
Maybe I should have been embarrassed by how much I loved the way he wrote.
His facility with words sometimes made me forget the sense of them.
He used long words I vaguely knew but often had to look up.
5.
Make an inventory of unfamiliar terms, and look them up after the diary is replaced, and only then...
I increased my own vocabulary in imitation of him, thrilling when my teachers noticed my elevated prowess with the language, shamed when I received a piece back and couldn't remember what a particularly juicy term meant.
Soon, I had Bertrand's killings to add to my catalogue of Bundy's crimes.
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