My Child is Missing by Lisa Regan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Lisa Regan
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It starts as a whisper, a story that children tell each other on the
playground and at slumber parties to scare one another. There’s a creature in
the forest. Or maybe it’s a man, seven feet tall, and as big as a tree. He lurks
and watches, always there, just out of sight, but ready to pounce. If this
mythical thing captures you, you disappear. Or you die. No one knows for
sure. The story changes over time as the lore grows and spreads, as more
whispers join the chorus, until it is more than a story. It’s a legend.
The legend of the Woodsman.
I hear people talking about it in stores, restaurants, the city park. Parents
tell their children the Woodsman isn’t real. There’s nothing to worry about,
they say in soothing tones. I can see in their faces that they’re fed up with
this nonsense, with their children having nightmares over a stupid story. I
can tell that they believe what they say. The Woodsman is not real.
They’re wrong.
I know this because I am the Woodsman, and I am coming for their
children.
TWO
Josie was jolted awake by screams. Her body sprang to a standing
position. It was part instinct, but she was also vaguely aware of being
propelled to her feet by some unseen force. Her eyes snapped open to
blinding daylight and she realized she had been jostled out of her seat by a
crowd of people cheering. Blinking, she tried to get her bearings. Spread
out before her was a baseball field filled with seven- and eight-year-olds in
uniforms and helmets that looked too large for their heads. She was in the
stands sandwiched between her friend, Misty DeRossi, and her former
mother-in-law, Cindy Quinn. All the parents were hollering and pumping
their fists in the air. One of the boys sprinted around the bases. Josie blinked
again, trying to see if it was Harris, Misty’s son.
Beside her, Misty screamed, “Go, go, go, go!”
On the other side of her, his grandmother, Cindy, yelled, “Run! Run!”
The boy slid into home base. His helmet tumbled off, taking his hat with
it, revealing blond hair with a whorl at the back of his scalp identical to that
of Josie’s late ex-husband, Ray Quinn.
Misty let out a resounding whoop and then threw her arms around
Josie’s neck, squeezing hard. At home plate, Harris jumped to his feet and
began high-fiving nearby teammates and one of the coaches. Then he ran
off the field and directly into the arms of Josie’s husband, Noah Fraley. As
the crowd quieted, Josie heard Harris’s voice. “Did you see, Uncle Noah?
Did you see?”
Noah’s reply was swallowed up by one of the coaches hollering for the
next player to come to bat. He spun Harris around and set him back onto the
ground, waving him toward the bench where his teammates waited with
high fives. The smile on Noah’s face made Josie’s heart thump.
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