My Daughter Vanished Ten Years Ago – Then I Woke Up to Find Our Swimming Pool Covered with Hundreds of Rubber Ducks, and the Note Bound to the Biggest One Made Me Scream

Not much else.

I always was on that date.

Some mornings, we passed in the kitchen like tenants. He poured coffee. I rinsed a mug.

Neither of us asked where the other was going anymore.

I always went to the pond.

Roger always went somewhere else.

I always went to the pond.

I tied my robe and walked past Emma’s bedroom. The door was closed. I had dusted the frame the day before without touching the knob.

Outside, the barking kept going.

I opened the back door… and my next breath died in my throat.