The Mirror And the Mask
“Curt, dressed in his best dark blue suit, the one he said he reserved for weddings and funerals, stood in the doorway watching.
“You look like a million bucks.”
“You do, too,” said Annie. She’d never seen him in a suit before and could easily imagine him as a doctor. He looked older, somehow. More substantial. It was still early, not quite ten, but already she could tell by the glassy look in his eyes that he’d been at the bourbon. His mother would be buried at St. Jude’s Cemetery in Woodbury i...n a few hours. He seemed preoccupied and probably needed something to dull the pain, which under the circumstances was understandable.
“Sunny should be there this morning,” said Curt. “I can’t think about anything else.”
“Maybe she’ll turn up at the cemetery.”
He shook his head. “At least the police are taking her disappearance seriously. What if something really bad happened to her? What if she’s . . . dead?”
Annie turned to him. “You can’t think like that.”MoreLess
“You look like a million bucks.”
“You do, too,” said Annie. She’d never seen him in a suit before and could easily imagine him as a doctor. He looked older, somehow. More substantial. It was still early, not quite ten, but already she could tell by the glassy look in his eyes that he’d been at the bourbon. His mother would be buried at St. Jude’s Cemetery in Woodbury i...n a few hours. He seemed preoccupied and probably needed something to dull the pain, which under the circumstances was understandable.
“Sunny should be there this morning,” said Curt. “I can’t think about anything else.”
“Maybe she’ll turn up at the cemetery.”
He shook his head. “At least the police are taking her disappearance seriously. What if something really bad happened to her? What if she’s . . . dead?”
Annie turned to him. “You can’t think like that.”MoreLess
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