Putting On the Dog (2004)
Putting On the Dog
“—Nigerian proverb Are you okay, Jessie?” Shelley asked, her face tense with concern.
I just nodded, unable to respond.
“Do you want some water?”
“No, thanks. But is there someplace quiet I can sit for a few minutes while I read through this?”
“Sure. There’s a bench in the back room, where we store supplies,” she replied, pointing. “No one will bother you there.”
Clutching the stack of papers in my hand, I dashed to the back room and sank onto the wooden bench I found pushed into a corner. I sor...ted through the pages, putting them in order. I had a feeling I was about to read quite a story, and I wanted to reconstruct the events exactly as they’d occurred.
I noted that the newspapers they’d been copied from were ten years old, with dates that ran from April to May. I started with page one.
SWEET ELM TEACHER MISSING A Sweet Elm High School English teacher is missing, according to Sheriff Clarence Colby of the Sweet Elm Police Department. Sheriff Colby reported that the school principal, Marion Carson, contacted the Sweet Elm Police Department at approximately 4:15 P.M.MoreLess
I just nodded, unable to respond.
“Do you want some water?”
“No, thanks. But is there someplace quiet I can sit for a few minutes while I read through this?”
“Sure. There’s a bench in the back room, where we store supplies,” she replied, pointing. “No one will bother you there.”
Clutching the stack of papers in my hand, I dashed to the back room and sank onto the wooden bench I found pushed into a corner. I sor...ted through the pages, putting them in order. I had a feeling I was about to read quite a story, and I wanted to reconstruct the events exactly as they’d occurred.
I noted that the newspapers they’d been copied from were ten years old, with dates that ran from April to May. I started with page one.
SWEET ELM TEACHER MISSING A Sweet Elm High School English teacher is missing, according to Sheriff Clarence Colby of the Sweet Elm Police Department. Sheriff Colby reported that the school principal, Marion Carson, contacted the Sweet Elm Police Department at approximately 4:15 P.M.MoreLess
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