The Murder Game

Résumé

It’s a game they play every year at my new college.

A game called Murder.

Think of it like hazing—the older students are assigned freshman with the slip of a note under their door and they spend the semester plotting out creative ways to kill us. There are rules so it isn’t easy.

1. No victim shall be nude when murdered

2. No victim shall be accompanied by an adult when the murderer strikes

3. No victim shall be off campus during the murder

4. No victim shall suffer true bodily harm from the murderer

The rules make the game more challenging, but they also keeps us safe. The murderers can’t truly hurt us and no one actually dies.

It’s just a game, after all.

Until this year.

This year we all have blood on our hands.