Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, theyre calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. Its true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And its true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that shes not a murderer at all -- shes a murderess.