by Lara Chapman
“There will be plenty of choices for her, correct?” Mom asks.
“She’s vegetarian,” Dad adds, lowering his voice to a whisper. He hates that I’m vegetarian. He doesn’t understand how anyone can survive without meat. Maybe it’s my hedge witch ancestry, but I have a thing for organically grown vegetables. It’s one of the many things Kendall used to tease me about.
Miss A gives a double thumbs-up. “Yes, ma’am!”
She hands me a beaded lanyard that reminds me of the necklace I got when we visited an Indian reservation in Louisiana. No two stones are the same, and they have a tribal look to them.
Hanging from the lanyard is an ID card. Dead center is a picture of me I’ve never seen, wearing the exact same shirt I’m wearing now. I mentally backtrack through the last few months. Did I try this shirt on before today? Did Mom take my picture? I know that I know that I know . . . I didn’t put this shirt on before today. So that means they took this picture . . . today? How? When? And how’d it get on my badge so quickly?
About the Author
Lara Chapman lives with her family in Central Texas, where she teaches high school English. She reads and writes daily and is rarely—if ever—found without her laptop and iPhone. Lara has a lifelong love affair with animals, especially dachshunds, and always has an animal or two snuggled close when writing.
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The text of this book was set in Fairfield.
Library of Congress Control Number 2014960003
ISBN 978-1-4814-0111-1 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4814-0110-4 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4814-0112-8 (eBook)