The Dead Season
“There was a slight relaxation of tension while cups were refilled and packets of sugar and artificial creamer dispensed. The deputy had brought a folder with papers in it, and I assumed they were statements from some of the other kids. Agent Brown and Detective Ritchie passed them back and forth. Sonny asked if I wanted to take a break. I shook my head. Agent Brown leaned back and sipped his coffee, glancing over his notes. “So help me get a picture of this. How many people were actually on the... bridge when Mr. Evans went over?”“I don’t know for sure.” I was trying to be a good witness. I knew how important accuracy was. But I now also understood what strange tricks the mind could play when a person was in the very center of a crisis. I honestly had no clear recollection of the details of that moment. “Rachel must have been on the bridge, because that’s where I found her when I reached it. I don’t know whether Lourdes was on the bridge or at the edge of it. Paul couldn’t have been more than a foot or two on the bridge when he went over, which is why he hit the slope instead of falling into the chasm.”“And how far away from the bridge were you?”I thought about that.MoreLess
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