“9-1-1, what is your emergency?”
“I’d like to report a missing person.”
“How long has this person been missing, ma’am?”
Huh. That required some mental calculation. “About eight years?”
“Eight years? Why are you reporting this now?”
Time to tell the truth. “Because I don’t want to be lost anymore.”
Robert Carlberg has occasional sleepless nights when he eats too much salad. On those nights he sometimes writes stories. Blame the bleu cheese.
