Futureimperfect (2007)
“She smelled of soot and smoke. Her brunette hair, mussed, had gray bits of ash woven into it. She’d been in the fire that had almost wiped out Robert A. Wilson High School’s entire senior class. That was just last night, but here she was, in school, in Emeril Tippicks’s tiny office, sitting in a small blue plastic chair, her lean form folded fetally.Why? What had possessed her to come to school today? Moreover, what had possessed her, as Tippicks had been told, to run into the blazing warehouse... and save Harry Keller’s life?Tippicks didn’t ask out loud, but he didn’t have to. She coughed, scrunched her face, swiped a dry, plumdyed clump of hair from her forehead, and said, “I have to talk to you about Harry.”Tippicks had been up since three because of the fire, fielding calls, filling out forms. Now he was in a death match with a vengeful headache. Sleepless and disheveled, he knew he looked more like a balding, gray-haired turkey than a role model, but he wanted to help.So he leaned forward and immediately knocked over a mug crammed with pens and pencils.MoreLess
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