MY MIND REELED. BOBBY was her older brother. He’d gone away to college when Ilene was just starting middle school. He’d gone missing during his freshmen year. No witnesses, no trace. It was an unsolved cold case and had left a deep hole in her families lives. This thought made me glance down the street at the deep hole in my own life.
Ding! More messages came through on my phone.
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12:36 P.M. OUT OF ORDER, another picture came through. This time of little Tommy with wide eye’s looking at a huge spider in a glass case.
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1:12 P.M. HE’S BEING held against his will, has been all along!
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MY MOUTH FELL OPEN as I stared at my phone waiting for more messages to come through. For a moment nothing happened as the little wheel spun. Then a vide
