CHAPTER THREEThursday, October 22, 1987 ONE—The Station (1) “—and you put your coat and purse here, in this locker.” Ginny Yarrow, former EHS classmate of Anna Sudek, and current dispatcher for the Ewerton Police Department, opened the door of a small gray enamel locker. The inside of the door was fuzzy in spots, as if someone had placed a mirror or Stick-Up there long ago, and there were small crumb like bits of debris caught in the inside corners. Anna felt a sweeping rush of déjà-vu; her junior-year locker at EHS had been gray, too, and almost as cruddy inside on the opening day of school. And Ginny Yarrow (then Ginny North, but already wearing Band-Aids to cover Lonny Yarrow’s hickeys during Phys Ed) had had the locker next to Anna’s then, too. And other things were the same, as we

