Quitman, Texas
Barbara Casburn was sound asleep when her cell phone rang. She fumbled on the nightstand and managed to knock over her favorite reading lamp before she retrieved the instrument and discovered a text message. The sender ID read MIKE. She righted the lamp, snapped it on, and sat up to read the message she’d been dreading. It simply said WISH YOU WERE HERE and contained a set of numbers. She reached for a pen and jotted the figures on a pad: 40/23N – 127/15E.
She headed for the kitchen to keep from disturbing Marcus, her sleeping husband, and searched around in the junk drawer for the slip of paper she’d used to record a critical mobile phone number. She punched up the message app and thumbed in a text: HEARD FROM MIKE. As directed, she added the local time in Texas and the n
