" When I went downstairs this morning and found Cookie missing, I knew that official emergency procedure called for me to phone all information into the Bureau of Disappearances. "
"Which Meant moving to Chicago to stay with your brother, who still had the keys his house an d a spare set to give you. "
I was working ! A lot of people have left work you know that. We're understaffed"
"Why did you do that stay away for so long? "
"Its me, I just wanted call to see if you remembered Cookie! what do you remember?"
"Of course I still remember Cookie. I remember that you picked her because she bit you. "
" In the Master bedroom I turned down the sheets. My brother wouldn't be back again, but I made the bed everyday to be a good guest. I had started sleeping with they lights on i wanted to see more minutes of things "
"I felt the heat radiating from my body with no place to go. Dots of darkness that weren't really there drifted past my eyes. In the darkness I couldn't see the disappearing any longer but I knew it was all going, going far, far away. Until gradually I didn't even know anymore. "