CHAPTER 12
Carl
“This place is amazing,” Belle breathes as she follows me into the computer room. I offer her a chair and then sit at the main terminal, bringing up Alice Crabbe’s Phoenicia Stories website.
“Alice Crabbe is infamous,” I confide scouring the site for a mention of me. “You couldn’t have known. I came up here from Brooklyn every summer to stay with my cousins, and even back then… If you told Alice Crabbe anything, she would spread it all over town.
“My cousin Dave once lost his girlfriend, because he told Alice Crabbe he was frustrated when she flirted with other guys. She has broken up marriages, caused inadvertent fist-fights, and embarrassed almost every person who has spoken to her on anything private, ever. We keep her around because she has a gift for delivering hea
