My parents took off for a weekend vacation, leaving me with our next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, and she seemed pretty happy to get a break from her husband. I've heard they haven't been getting along well since their kids left for college. I just turned e...
I grew up in a moderately Orthodox Jewish household, in an Orthodox community. I attended public school and had friends yet could not participate in after-school/extracurricular activities, spending my time at home or Temple. As a girl, I was held in less...
Two days earlier, thirty-five-year-old Chris Rose had dialled a phone number that he believed to belong to a woman named Susan, a number that a mutual friend had given him with a view to Chris and Susan meeting on a blind date. As it turned out, Chris had...
"Hello?" said thirty-nine-year-old Donna Braithwaite, as she answered her landline phone to a number that she did not recognise. "Hello, is that Susan?" said the male voice on the other end. "No, sorry, I think you have the wrong number," said Donna. "Oh,...
