The Call
Madlyn Palmer is the Director of the City Public Library. Her husband, Wesley Palmer, was the manager of a wholesale grocers’ warehouse. One Thursday afternoon, Wesley just vanished. His car, phone, wallet were in the employee parking lot. Wesley was nowhere to be found. The FBI took the case. That was fifteen years ago. One summer morning Madlyn’s telephone rang. She answered it and heard a voice ask “Maddy, is that you? Maddy?” Only one person has ever called Madlyn Palmer ‘Maddy’. With a crackle, the call disconnected. It took fifteen years but the call she waited for finally came. Wesley Palmer is alive, somewhere. The FBI reopened their file.