The Humor Side

19 – 24 minutes By the time Marissa turned onto Ridge Hollow Lane that afternoon, she was only thinking about

12 – 16 minutes For years, I ignored the small charge that appeared on our bank statement every month. My

31 – 40 minutes Chapter One The Positive Test “My ten-year-old daughter’s pregnancy test came back positive. When her biological

15 – 18 minutes I spent 16 years believing my daughter’s disappearance had left me with nothing but questions. Then

24 – 31 minutes The sound did not belong in a room where a child had just been born. One

10 – 13 minutes My son told everyone his biker father was dead until he needed a kidney. For fifteen

12 – 15 minutes On a crisp, sunlit Saturday morning, I stood in my front yard with garden soil beneath

Julia 15 – 19 minutes Two weeks before graduation, my son told me he planned to do something that might

14 – 18 minutes The hospital ceiling had exactly 47 tiles. I knew because I had counted them 3 times

3 – 4 minutes Fifteen years had passed since the day my wife, Lisa, vanished without a trace. She had