Energized

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Genres: Fiction
Clarissa asked, tugging and twisting a lock of hair.
“I don’t know, hon. I just don’t know.” Anna Burkhalter put an arm around her daughter and gave a hopefully reassuring squeeze. They sat side by side on their living room sofa.
“What exactly did they say?” Rob asked from his college dorm room.
As Rob kept asking, with only the slightest variations in wording, as though some secret truth waited to be teased and coaxed out of the cryptic request. Summons. Command.
Anna looked around the room wi
...th embarrassment. She had been on the verge of replacing the battered tables, the worn-shiny fabric of the sofa, the dated carpet, the cat-tattered curtains. She had been on the verge for years. More urgent uses for the money had always intruded, even before the divorce.
“Only that we make ourselves available for this call. Just the three of us. You are alone, aren’t you, Rob?”
“Yes, Mom.”
“I think we have to prepare for the worst,” Anna said.
Because they had not heard from Patrick for a month.
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