The Streets (The Pines Trilogy Book 3) by Robert Dunbar

The Streets (The Pines Trilogy Book 3) by Robert Dunbar

Author:Robert Dunbar [Dunbar, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Uninvited Books
Published: 2015-09-29T23:00:00+00:00


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“We never really talk about this,” said Suzanne as she leaned back against the pillow and opened her book.

“About?”

“Not since what happened with my niece,” Suzanne continued.

“Oh.” Doris added nothing further, but thoughts and memories dimmed the bedroom like smoke: they’d met because of the niece. Doris and her friends had reached them too late, and the poor girl had all but exploded. Suzanne had been emotionally shattered by the loss of a child she had essentially raised, but Doris had helped her to heal, or at least had tried. It did not form the worst foundation for a relationship.

“Something I’ve been thinking about. No, just listen a moment,” Suzanne said. “Here goes. Do you ever think that maybe they’re not new? That maybe they’re something from some past that people might be better off not knowing about?” Taking off her reading glasses, she propped the book against a fold in the blanket.

“I don’t let myself think that way.” Doris took her hand. “And, no, I don’t want to ‘dialogue’ about it.”

“As if.” Suzanne pulled her hand away. “I would never say anything like that.”

“Only because the kids would never stop laughing.”

“Umm… if your inner adult calls, could you put her on? I’d like to speak with her.”

“Hey!”

Suzanne relented and leaned against her, and they stayed that way for a time. At last, Doris turned her attention back to the pile of papers on her nightstand. She went through everything at night, every night. Bills. Circulars. Crummy little newspapers, all ads and birth announcements and civic awards, from a dozen crummy little towns. “Hey, Larry finally married that girl.”

“Who?”

Doris chuckled. “Never mind. Somebody I used to know in a different life.” Finally, she asked, “What’s the book? Another murder mystery?”

“They relax me.”

“You’d think if there was one thing we had enough of in our lives…”

“Don’t start.”

Pages turned. Papers rustled.

“Okay if I kill the light soon?” asked Doris finally.

“Soon. Oh, I meant to ask. Why was the first aid kit out? Did something happen?”

“They were fooling around on the fence, that’s all,” Doris explained. “A few minor lacerations. Nothing serious. Really. I would have told you. Kids get hurt all the time without it being the end of the world.”



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