Description
Sander is quiet. Karin is quiet too. That alone should tell you that something isn't the way it's supposed to be. Nor- mally Karin talks all the time.
But when two people are lying in bed in the middle of the night, waiting for a phone that doesn't ring, things tend to get quiet. What they hear is the alarm clock on the nightstand, which is not ticking but droning.
The creak- ing in the walls. The rush of the wind and snow outside the window. The insomniac neighbor next door who turns off the radio and gets ready to go to bed one more time Karin has promised Sander that he doesn't have to go to sleep until Julie calls to say good night. Sander is seven and a half. Julie should have called several hours ago.
