Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m
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A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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Hair. It’s hair, a real, proper knot of hair, on that broken front door. Simone reaches to touch it; she would know it anywhere. The precise thickness, colour, texture. It’s her daughter’s hair. So much of it, it would have caused such pain to come out.

She pulls gently and the clump comes away. She studies it, a soft curl sitting in her palm, and thinks that this is … that an injury has caused this.

Maybe it isn’t her hair. Maybe it was an accident.

Lucy hurrying to – to where? Back into the bedroom, and she starts to go through their family WhatsApp, set up by Damien, who sends earnest memes Lucy ignores but that Simone likes.