ICYMI: Summer reading: Blind Date, by Ottawa's Brenda Chapman
The room was shadowed in stripes of predawn darkness when Ella slipped out of bed and trod across the cold floor, down the short hallway into the living room to stand in front of the window. She craned her neck to see the small front yard and street below. Weak rays lightened the night’s darkness, and the conifers in the yard across the street swayed in a wind that had kicked up while she was asleep.
Aside from the desk and chair, a ratty two-seat couch was the only furniture. Greg took the nicer pieces when he moved out a month before, six weeks after he’d moved in. Instead of replacing the pieces with new stuff, she’d visited the Sally Ann and selected whatever would get her by on the cheap. Perhaps foolishly, she’d spent part of her severance on a state-of-the-art computer system: an analog microphone, audio interface, headphones, and editing software.
She got up and checked the cupboards. The fridge. A stale box of crackers and the stub of a block of cheddar cheese that had lost its neon orange hue were all that remained. The breakfast of champions. A message pinged as she settled back in front of the computer, munching on a cracker. Felix.A break in text. Three dots jumped while he typed at the other end. She waited, anxious to know if the victim was still alive.She thought for a moment before typing.Good. Thx.
Her email notified that a new message had arrived, and she opened it to find a transfer of four hundred dollars. She accepted the money and toasted the screen with a cracker. She’d be able to stretch the funds to last the month but needed to come up with another story if she was going to eat in November. That or find a real job.Ella carried out a Google search going back a week for local news stories about the rape and found nothing. She typed in the name “Josie Wheatly.
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