The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

by Colleen Oakley

“You still have to tell them you kidnapped me, if we get caught.” Tanner may have been acting rashly, but she wasn’t stupid.

Tanner got a sinking feeling in her stomach. “The friend you called,” she whispered to Mrs. Wilt. “It’s not God, is it?” She respected people’s beliefs, but thought they might need a little more than faith to get out of the situation they were currently in.

“Sometimes it just feels like we still spend so much time trying to teach the house not to catch on fire, instead of teaching the arsonist not to light it.”