Chilling right?!?! And here is the wonderful, amazing, and brilliant author who brought Pretty Girl-13 to life, Liz Coley. Liz, what made you decide to write Pretty Girl-13 ? I call it the collision of a title, a character, and a question. The first element was the character. Ever since I found out that a person I thought I knew well was a reintegrated personality, I had the goal of writing a story featuring a protagonist with dissociative identity disorder. Second was the question. I read a lot. Among the articles floating around in my brain was one from 2006 about new techniques in neurobiology whereby individual neurons could be modified with light sensitive switches to turn them on and off. I also read about the military attempting to modify combat memories to treat post-traumatic stress. And finally, I read about scientists zeroing in on the precise locations of memories in our brains. All of which led to the question—if you had the option to remember or ...