The Ghost Orchid
“In the overgrown hedges, seed pods, like small bells, rattle in the cold wind that sweeps down out of the north woods. The dried brush, instead of seeming sparser, feels thicker—a thicket of thorns woven by a malicious fairy to insulate us from the outside world. There are no phones in the main house, only in the office in the old gatehouse, and so our only contact with the outside world depends on the phone messages taken by Daria Tate.The pink slips that haphazardly find their way into our lu...nch boxes, though, might as well be written in Sanskrit. I receive a message from my mother that reads, “The keys are in the alarm,” which makes no sense because my mother owns neither an alarm system nor a car and there aren’t even locks on the doors to her house. David gets a message about a job opening at the New York Botanical Garden a week after the job has been filled. Bethesda learns that her cat has been taken to the vet for “his yearly dairy injection,” and Nat gets a pink note with a smiley face informing him that Oprah has picked his book for her book club.MoreLess
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