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Weekly Contest #369
She got the news before she heard the news. The two missed calls on her mobile from her aunt during the night were enough to alert her to the fact that he’d died. Her aunt would not have called otherwise. No one from her family did. International calls were expensive. And no one wanted to talk to each other anyway.She got the kids to school, and it was several hours before she was able to catch her aunt directly and confirm her father was dead. She called her husband and he said he would come home from work. She rang both her siblings.What n...
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