the cul de sac: chapters 25 - 35

Ghosts In The Burbs

Liz Sower

Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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a story told several chapters at a time

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0:00.0	So it seems like the quintessential New England home has turned into the quintessential
0:10.8	haunted New England money pit. And I'm sorry to say that things are about to get much worse
0:17.7	from here on out for May and Tom. So let's keep going.
0:23.6	Chapter 25.
0:25.6	Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, Tom exclaimed, breezing through the front door.
0:29.9	A client needed handholding and I couldn't get away.
0:32.2	What time is your book club thing?
0:34.4	It's in half an hour, I snapped, stomping upstairs.
0:37.9	"'I've been waiting for you to get home so I could take a shower.'
0:40.5	"'Why?' he asked, sliding out of his jacket.
0:43.7	"'I didn't bother responding.
0:45.4	Instead, I stormed into our bedroom and slammed the door.
0:48.0	"'There was no time to get into it.
0:49.3	"'I didn't even want to go to the damn book club, but I couldn't see a way out of it. I showered and did my hair
0:54.4	and makeup in record time, but got tripped up trying to decide what to wear. When I texted back
0:59.7	to accept Kat's invitation and expressed concern that I hadn't yet read the book they were discussing,
1:04.3	she replied, huh, it's the Woodland Hills book chat and chug, May. No one reads the book.
1:10.5	If I were attending a book club
1:11.9	anywhere else, I wouldn't have given my outfit a second thought, but Angela's comments about
1:16.4	Woodland Hills being filled with the thin, rich, and fabulous came back to haunt me. Lucky was
1:21.3	classy, stylish. I'd only seen Evelyn once, but she had label maple vibes, and Cat would
1:26.4	look in a potato sack. Cheryl would be glamorous, and Linda, well, but she had label-Mabel vibes, and Cat would look good in a potato sack.
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