Of course it wasn’t Ginny who vanished; it was Bob, while riding the elevator in a parking garage next to his office. There were disruptions in phone and Internet service that day, and Melissa didn’t find out he was missing until around nine o’clock that night, when Ginny herself showed up to break the news. She seemed dazed and groggy, like someone had just awoken her from a long afternoon nap. Bobby’s gone, she kept muttering. Bobby’s gone. You know what I said to her? Melissa had closed her eyes, as if she were trying to wish away the memory. I said, Good, now you know how it feels.
