The text read: Moms in the closet
That might have been funny, but Sylvia was really disciplined about punctuation, even in text.
The missing apostrophe was an SOS, the unwritten words were: Get Here. NOW.
Ted saw brake lights on the freeway, took a shortcut he hoped wasn’t bungled by the new construction on Beaubien, caught a curb taking a too fast right on Sycamore.
About halfway down Broad he thought:she couldn’t possibly mean she hung herself in the closet. No. No way. Syl would have called screaming.
Ted parked with the passenger side wheels on the lawn.
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