Chasing The Case by Joan Livingston

Author:Joan Livingston [Livingston, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crooked Cat Books
Published: 2018-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

Calendar

Adela’s calendar is a freebie given out by a local hardware store that’s no longer around, a victim of a later downturn in the economy. I have the calendar open on my kitchen table. Ma sits beside me. The pages feature idyllic photos of country living, heavy on maple trees, dirt roads, red barns, and rivers, plus puppies and deer. But I don’t care about any of that. I’m interested in what Adela wrote on its pages.

The first four months are filled with notations about bills and appointments at the Conwell Medical Center. Of course, there are birthdays. Her father’s is January 15. Her mother’s a week later. She marks off February and April vacations for Dale.

“Nothing unusual here,” I tell Ma, and she hums in agreement. I turn the page to April and May. “Same stuff here.”

But in June she starts writing X’s on certain days, Mondays the most, some Tuesdays, and weekends. I flip through the pages. In early August, she blocks off an entire week, the second. She wrote VACATION. I need to ask Andrew and Dale about that. Did she go away that week? If so, did she take her son?

She drew a red heart on her birthday, August 21.

“Looks like it was a good birthday for her,” Ma says.

“I bet those are the days she hooked up with her guy friend,” I say, avoiding the term boyfriend since women Adela’s age, or mine for that matter, don’t date boys unless they’re cougars. “Funny, it’s almost like she’s keeping score.”

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