Dorothy Must Die

As Amy walks along the road, she waits for her environment to look like the Oz from the movie, but the landscape remains sickly and gray. She wonders if the “she” the boy mentioned was Dorothy and what mistakes she made. Around a bend in the road, Amy arrives at an abandoned town with a statue of Dorothy, complete with a “pair of glittering silver shoes on its feet” (38).

A girl in Goth clothes and makeup appears from one of the houses. She introduces herself as Indigo and proceeds to mock Amy until she realizes Amy is from the same place as Dorothy. A clanking sound comes from somewhere in the distance, and Indigo looks nervous. She walks away, telling Amy to “get your ass back to wherever it is you came from and hope you never wind up in this sorry place again” (42). Amy asks what happened because this isn’t the Oz she’s familiar with, and Indigo points to the statue, saying “Dorothy happened.”

Amy comes upon a group of munchkins digging for something while Glinda oversees their work. Amazed to see Glinda in the flesh, Amy gets closer, only to realize the Munchkins are crying.