Absence of Grace

by Ann Warner

the original plan, but her mother had to be in Denver for Joshua’s treatment, and her father couldn’t give up two days work to drive her. In some ways, though, taking the bus made it easier to leave.

Peering into the wavy mirror in the bus stop restroom, she did the best she could, although the result wasn’t even close to the pixie cut she’d envisioned. But then, she was no pixie. The boys were the ones who’d inherited their mother’s

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Despite the itching, the steady hum of the tires eventually lulled her to sleep, and when the bus arrived in Mead, she stepped into the cool pre-dawn and stretched,

When she said she was, he loaded her suitcases in his trunk. Then he climbed in and looked at her in the rearview mirror. “Wasn’t sure you was a Marymead girl at first. Don’t look like one, that’s for sure.” Which was not exactly a ringing endorsement of her new look.

stunned by this plot twist