I Left My House Empty Three Days Before Christmas

I got back in the car and looked at the messages.

Where are you?

Mom call me NOW.

The kids are here.

Are you at the store?

This isn’t funny.

I put the phone face down and merged back onto the road.

What They Expected

You should know how this happened, because people don’t wake up one day at sixty-seven and vanish for Christmas unless they’ve been disappearing continue reading …