Local Woman Missing

by Mary Kubica

But sometimes being scared makes you do things you didn’t know you could do.

we all put on a good face when we need to.

What if there’s a serial kidnapper on the loose?

I thought I’d reached adulthood when I was that age. Now, over

a decade later, I realize that at twenty-three or twenty-four, I didn’t know much of anything. I still had so much growing up to do, so much to figure out about how the world worked.

I rub his ears, saying, “It’s okay, it’s okay,” but I don’t know that it is.

I feel vulnerable and exposed. I hate feeling vulnerable.

The woman on the street is Shelby.

“It’s just that, I was, like, digging around on the internet, trying to figure out if cleft chins are one of those things that just goes away, you know? And they’re not.”

It’s that you are not my sister.

They say time heals all wounds. Josh, Delilah and Leo are evidence of this. As for me, I’m patiently waiting, but hopeful that my time will come soon.