Mermaids on the Moon
Chapter One
The Fantasy Doll Theater had no telephone, so France drove out to
tell Bruno about her mother's disappearance. The theater, where
Bruno staged his Fantasy Doll shows, was thirty miles north of
Indianapolis, on a county road a few miles from the town of Cedar
Valley, up on a rise where the wind always blew. There was a
magnificent view, but France was sure Bruno never noticed the rise
and fall of the corn, rolling out for miles, the endless green grid
broken up occasionally by a farmhouse glowing white under oak and
maple trees. This morning, as usual, rain clouds filled the sky.
France pulled up next to Bruno's van with the bashed-in side, a van
he'd bought from a family who didn't have the insurance to fix it.
She hated the sight of it.
When she got out of her Toyota she felt assaulted by sounds. A ro ... read full excerpt from Mermaids on the Moon ebook
