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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âWe never really talk about this,â said Suzanne as she leaned back against the pillow and opened her book.
âAbout?â
âNot since what happened with my niece,â Suzanne continued.
âOh.â Doris added nothing further, but thoughts and memories dimmed the bedroom like smoke: theyâd 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.
âSomething Iâve been thinking about. No, just listen a moment,â Suzanne said. âHere goes. Do you ever think that maybe theyâre not new? That maybe theyâre something from some past that people might be better off not knowing about?â Taking off her reading glasses, she propped the book against a fold in the blanket.
âI donât let myself think that way.â Doris took her hand. âAnd, no, I donât want to âdialogueâ about it.â
âAs if.â Suzanne pulled her hand away. âI would never say anything like that.â
âOnly because the kids would never stop laughing.â
âUmm⦠if your inner adult calls, could you put her on? Iâd like to speak with her.â
âHey!â
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. âHey, Larry finally married that girl.â
âWho?â
Doris chuckled. âNever mind. Somebody I used to know in a different life.â Finally, she asked, âWhatâs the book? Another murder mystery?â
âThey relax me.â
âYouâd think if there was one thing we had enough of in our livesâ¦â
âDonât start.â
Pages turned. Papers rustled.
âOkay if I kill the light soon?â asked Doris finally.
âSoon. Oh, I meant to ask. Why was the first aid kit out? Did something happen?â
âThey were fooling around on the fence, thatâs all,â Doris explained. âA 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.â
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