“I’ve got to go Sally.” The phone clicked. And that was it.

Dumbfounded and outraged, Sally redialed his number. Voicemail.

What the EXPLETIVE? EXPLETIVE!! She was probably getting him off right then and there as I was talking to him on the phone.She couldn’t help but process vivid scenes and judgments through her mind.

While her mom put the girls to bed, Jordan spent some time working on her story, it had been more than a few days since she had dedicated any time at all to the tale and now that she had committed to entering it into the NPR competition, she wanted to think through the plot line before putting anymore paragraphs together.