Waking Hours
“She hadn’t really said that, had she?
Right after telling him she was so hungry she couldn’t think straight. How a mature, sensible, educated, professional woman could become so tongue-tied was beyond her—and for what? A guy she knew half a lifetime ago?
“He must think I’m an idiot,” she said out loud.
Dani spent the afternoon in her office researching Alzheimer’s to prepare to interview Abbie Gardener and certify whether or not the old woman was competent to give reliable testimony or speak in... her own defense. She’d read Abbie Gardener’s books as a girl, particularly The Witches of East Salem, which told hard-to-believe stories about some of the very houses and places Dani rode past on the bus on her way to elementary school. Kids called her “the witch lady.” No one dared go near the Gardener Farm on Halloween where, according to local kid lore, three trick-or-treaters had once rung the doorbell and been so frightened by what they saw next that their hair turned white.MoreLess
Right after telling him she was so hungry she couldn’t think straight. How a mature, sensible, educated, professional woman could become so tongue-tied was beyond her—and for what? A guy she knew half a lifetime ago?
“He must think I’m an idiot,” she said out loud.
Dani spent the afternoon in her office researching Alzheimer’s to prepare to interview Abbie Gardener and certify whether or not the old woman was competent to give reliable testimony or speak in... her own defense. She’d read Abbie Gardener’s books as a girl, particularly The Witches of East Salem, which told hard-to-believe stories about some of the very houses and places Dani rode past on the bus on her way to elementary school. Kids called her “the witch lady.” No one dared go near the Gardener Farm on Halloween where, according to local kid lore, three trick-or-treaters had once rung the doorbell and been so frightened by what they saw next that their hair turned white.MoreLess
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