English 311
First sentence of Susan Isaacs, Long Time,
No See
On an unseasonably warm Halloween night,
while I was reading a snappy treatise on
Wendell Willkies support of FDRs war policies and handing out the occasional
bag of M&Ms to a
trick-or-treater,
the fair-haired and dimpled Courtney Logan,
age thirty-four,
magna cum laude
graduate of Princeton,
erstwhile investment
banker at Patton Giddings,
wife of darkly handsome
Greg,
mother of five-year-old
Morgan and eighteen-month-old Travis,
canner of peach salsa,
collector of vintage
petit point,
and ex-president of
Citizens for a More Beautiful Shorehaven
vanished from Long Island into thin air.