Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

Author:Joseph Fink
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

The Taconic State Parkway is beautiful, a road that meanders. It feels like taking a walk in the woods. But taking a walk in the woods is something best done slowly, on foot, not speeding in a car. It is a dangerous road. No streetlights. Sharp turns. Long stretches with no shoulder, just a rock face on one side and a thin barrier on the other. If life is a balancing act between beauty and danger, then the Taconic is paved right down the middle.

The Sunoco station where her mother had been killed was off the Taconic. Sylvia walked around the station, putting on a show of careful investigation, but with shaking fists clenched tight at her sides. This place, for her, was a wound.

“We’re not going to find anything here,” she said.

“No,” said Keisha.

“It’s been years. There wouldn’t be any physical evidence left.”

“No.”

She nodded, put her hands on her hips.

“Her name was Sylvia too. My mom. People got so confused about her making me Sylvia Junior. Women aren’t supposed to do that. They’d think they misheard. There was like six months when I was fourteen that I hated it and insisted on being called Ace, but I got over it.”

She turned away from the crime scene that was a few years too late to give up its answers.

“Well, shit,” she said.

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