Girls Like Us
Cristina Alger
"Lee drives and I stare out the window."
"Lee drives and I stare out the window."
"Morel season dawned on us in chilly spring, and we fell upon the mossy ground in a porcine frenzy."
"The first responders, a pair of uniformed constables, were still at the house."
"It’s six o’clock Thursday evening."
"But Steve was doing okay."
"Some things happen so fast."
"Agnes Thelin almost looked apologetic when she explained I was a suspect."
"Murdered? I snatched the newspaper from Hetty’s hands and spread it on my lap."
"Christopher lets himself into his seafront town house alone."
"Southerners will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill of the dead, no matter how much they hated a person’s guts while they were alive."