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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Simone’s back shivers deeply, her spine a centipede. Lucy is striding ahead in the way that she does. Her rucksack on her back, hands holding the straps on her shoulders, sipping constantly at water, head perfectly upright. She still hasn’t noticed Simone using the phone, and thank God for that.

‘I’m going for a wee,’ Simone calls out, and Lucy throws out a hand behind her head in acknowledgement, but doesn’t really slow her steps.

Simone will catch up. You can’t lose each other in a place where you can see two miles in every direction, where the only thing obscuring the view is the curvature of the Earth.

Simone heads behind a rock, the air above it quivering hot with sun, and opens the article in the shade. She will have only a few minutes.