Rewinding The Tape

Sara punched the station’s address into her Maps app and headed over. While she went, she listened to the recorded call a few times in her car, just laughing to herself about Elijah’s chicken nugget obsession and the “unfair no hair” bit about his father. The kid veered from making seemingly self-aware wisecracks to innocent slip-ups. She found his ability to find the fun in things when things were going wrong around him—at such a young age, too—endearing somehow.