You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert

Author:Mary Rickert [Rickert, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, fantasy, short stories
ISBN: 9781618731111
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2015-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

She began typing. I turned and walked away. What was I so creeped out about? This was the new world. My daughter and my husband were a part of it, as was I, even if with reluctance.

Jack spoke to Celia’s father that night. It turned out they had a lot in common too. He was an insurance salesman. His wife, however, was very different from me, a lawyer out of town until Friday night. Jack covered the mouthpiece. “He wants to pick Steff up around four-thirty on Friday. He’s going to be passing through town. They’ll pick Celia up at her dance class, and Sarah will get home from D.C. about five-thirty. He’s spoken to her and she’s happy to have Stephanie over. What do you think?”

“How does he sound?”

“He sounds a lot like me.”

Steff was standing in the kitchen doorway watching. I wasn’t used to her squinty-eyed appraisal, as if suddenly there was something suspicious about me.

“Okay,” I said.

Steff grinned. Jack took his hands off the mouthpiece. “That’ll work out fine,” he said in a boisterous voice. They really both looked so thrilled. Had I done this to them? Kept them so sheltered that Stephanie’s sleepover at a friend’s house on a Friday night, an absolutely normal occurrence for any girl her age, was such an enormous event?

Was this all my fault?

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