6 “Hellooo! Hey there stranger, what have you been up to?” Chloe’s cheerful greeting piped out of my cell phone, which I had put on speaker while I sorted through my kitchen cupboard to see what I could make for dinner. “Chloe, you have no idea.” “Of course I don’t have an idea. You’ve been off the radar for a few days. Everything ok?” “Yes, yes…but…” I paused my cupboard searching. So far I had found a can of green chili, a can of chicken broth, a can of peaches, and a small bag of oyster crackers that were probably more than three years old. Not really the ingredients for anything that I felt like eating. “I’m fine, I’ve just had a really strange couple of days, you know?” I backed up against the counter and leaned against it, rubbing my temples with my hands. How was I supposed to e

