Make Something Up (2015)
“Listening to the phone ring on the other end of the line, she picks up the remote control and clicks through television stations with the sound muted. She counts fifteen rings. Sixteen. Ted answers on the twenty-sixth ring, out of breath, and she asks him to pass the receiver to their daughter.
“I’ll go get her,” Ted says, “but I can’t promise any miracles.”
There’s a clunk as he sets the phone on the kitchen counter, and over the line Rachel can hear his voice get louder and fainter as he rove...s around the house, shouting, “April, honey? Come talk to Mommy!” She hears the squeak of the spring on the screen door. Ted’s footsteps appear and disappear as he moves from the wooden floor of the hallway to the carpeted stairs.
— Rachel waits. She sits on the bed. The motel room’s rug and drapes smell vaguely like a vintage clothing store: a lot of mildewed fabric, a little stale sweat, and cigarette smoke. It’s rare that she has to travel with her job; this is the first such trip since April was born three years ago.MoreLess
“I’ll go get her,” Ted says, “but I can’t promise any miracles.”
There’s a clunk as he sets the phone on the kitchen counter, and over the line Rachel can hear his voice get louder and fainter as he rove...s around the house, shouting, “April, honey? Come talk to Mommy!” She hears the squeak of the spring on the screen door. Ted’s footsteps appear and disappear as he moves from the wooden floor of the hallway to the carpeted stairs.
— Rachel waits. She sits on the bed. The motel room’s rug and drapes smell vaguely like a vintage clothing store: a lot of mildewed fabric, a little stale sweat, and cigarette smoke. It’s rare that she has to travel with her job; this is the first such trip since April was born three years ago.MoreLess
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