All the Missing Pieces

by Catherine Cowles

I flipped to the next page, my finger following down the list of names. Some missing persons cases. Some open murder cases. That finger stopped on the name that burned. Avery Bennett. Victim number ten. Lacrosse player. Arizona State Champion. National Honor Society. National Merit Scholar. Recipient of the Hayes Fellowship for sports medicine. Daughter. Sister. Gone. As if she’d disappeared into thin air, never to be seen again. “I’m going to find you, Avs. I promise.” No matter how many interfering sheriffs got in my way. No matter what accusations they threw at me. I would find my sister, my twin. Whatever it took.