Never Look Away
“"They had it on the TV.""What?" I said. "What did they have?""They had a picture of Jan, and that the police were looking for help to find her. That's good, right, that they did that?""Yeah," I said slowly. "But the detective, he said they were going to make a decision about that tomorrow. I wonder what made him change his mind. How much did they say?""Not much," my mother said. "They gave her name and age and height and what she was last seen wearing."From some distance away, my father shouted..., "Eye color!""That's right. They said what color eyes she has and hair and that kind of thing.""And where it happened?""Just a mention," Mom said. "It said she was last seen near Five Mountains. But they didn't have anything about that man trying to take Ethan. Shouldn't they have had something on that?"I said, "I wonder why Detective Duckworth didn't call me. You'd think, if he was deciding to change the timing of the release, he would have let me know."I wondered how long it would be before someone from my own paper called, asking what the hell was going on, how the Standard could get scooped on the disappearance of the spouse of one of its own staff members.MoreLess
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