The Only Child
Mi-ae Seo
"I told you about the room, didn’t I? The room with dozens of locks on it."
"I told you about the room, didn’t I? The room with dozens of locks on it."
"Doctors in Florida, uncommon surname, easy trace."
"Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others."
"Our school is locked up behind a six-foot wall with barbed wire on top, and an iron gate that has a door painted purple."
"The nurse, Mrs Bibby, sits with her bad leg on an upturned bucket."
"One summer evening, my mother had made peaches stuffed with tuna, which we ate on the blue stone terrace overlooking the garden."
"The tide was coming in, the wind had picked up, and the surf was beating against the shore with a little more energy."
"He pulled his cell phone out of his jacket pocket."
"'The police think I was at Mom’s house?' I asked Andrew, stunned."
"Chef Thompson ushered her across to the couch, then took a seat directly across from her. He met her eyes."
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