Summary

“Twittering from the Circus of the Dead” begins with an epigraph defining the Twitter platform. Blake, a teenage girl, is live-tweeting her family road trip. She is bored and reaches out through the internet. The destination is initially skiing and snowboarding in Colorado, but due to weather, they continue to drive. Blake’s mother insists that she is too involved in the internet. Blake is angered that her mother shut down her blog and uses Twitter as her social outlet. The family spends a night in a hotel and leaves early the next morning.

Blake continues tweeting to spite her mother. She muses over what survival skills her parents would use if they were stranded as they continue driving into Utah. She enjoys joking with her brother, Eric. Later, Blake has trouble falling asleep. She recalls the next...