Echoes of the Dead
“She’d been on the bench, watching the birds and mulling through Ben’s offer for almost an hour before she’d called her friend. She needed perspective. She needed the kind of perspective which her father supplied, but he was half a state away and what her mother judiciously called, “not a phone guy.”
“All right dearie, what’s so damn important I had to miss the new Jersey Shore?”
Kelsey cast a sidelong look at Brit. “How can you watch that train wreck?”
“It’s easy. It makes me feel like my life ...is pretty sane, you know? Don’t worry. This is why they made TIVO.” Brit sat on the bench. “So give. What’s going on in Kelsey-land?”
“I told you about my research, right?”
Brit nodded. “This is about the rat project? Thank God. Maybe I can shake some sense into you and you’ll pick something normal to study like paint color and mood or whatever.”
Kelsey frowned. “Something normal?”
“Sorry. Look—I know you’re attached to those vermin you keep calling ‘research subjects’ like they’re actual human beings.MoreLess
“All right dearie, what’s so damn important I had to miss the new Jersey Shore?”
Kelsey cast a sidelong look at Brit. “How can you watch that train wreck?”
“It’s easy. It makes me feel like my life ...is pretty sane, you know? Don’t worry. This is why they made TIVO.” Brit sat on the bench. “So give. What’s going on in Kelsey-land?”
“I told you about my research, right?”
Brit nodded. “This is about the rat project? Thank God. Maybe I can shake some sense into you and you’ll pick something normal to study like paint color and mood or whatever.”
Kelsey frowned. “Something normal?”
“Sorry. Look—I know you’re attached to those vermin you keep calling ‘research subjects’ like they’re actual human beings.MoreLess
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