Labour Day Lee Simon Short Stories
Simone Simon could never forget the day the tall, burly Baltimore county policeman, named Jim Barclay, knocked on her family's front door in Sparks, Maryland. It was Saturday, October 13th, 2000. It came at exactly nine-thirty a.m. like the force of thunder cracking through the silence of an otherwise uneventful morning.
"Uneventful," indeed, since Simone's only sister, Sunny, had gone missing five weeks earlier during the Labor Day weekend festival the family attended downtown at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Prior to the events of that Saturday morning, the family hadn't received any news regarding Sunny.
Fifteen years had passed since that dreadful day, but Simone still remembered vividly how the knock made her jump, vibrating through her …show more content…
When she was all cried out, Simone thought of the many hopes and dreams her sister had shared with her that would never be fulfilled. With that, . Finally, she prayed that God had granted mercy on Sunny, sparing her any unnecessary fear or pain. As much as she wanted to believe that, Simone knew nothing could be further from the truth, and knowing that, she would drink and drink until she eventually passed out. And so it went year after year until fifteen years later. Over the past several days, Simone's preoccupation with Sunny's disappearance had not faded. To the contrary, it was growing stronger, and the morning of Thursday, September 3, 2015 had brought it to the boiling point.
During her daily scouring of the internet, Simone recalled the events leading up to Sunny's disappearance as if it had occurred just the day before. On that perfect Sunday afternoon in the city, thousands of people attended the festival. Many were there to listen to the sound of several local bands, to celebrate the end of Summer Baltimore style with a sampling of succulent seafood dishes, including the city's staple delicacy: crabs, crabs, and more
"Uneventful," indeed, since Simone's only sister, Sunny, had gone missing five weeks earlier during the Labor Day weekend festival the family attended downtown at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Prior to the events of that Saturday morning, the family hadn't received any news regarding Sunny.
Fifteen years had passed since that dreadful day, but Simone still remembered vividly how the knock made her jump, vibrating through her …show more content…
When she was all cried out, Simone thought of the many hopes and dreams her sister had shared with her that would never be fulfilled. With that, . Finally, she prayed that God had granted mercy on Sunny, sparing her any unnecessary fear or pain. As much as she wanted to believe that, Simone knew nothing could be further from the truth, and knowing that, she would drink and drink until she eventually passed out. And so it went year after year until fifteen years later. Over the past several days, Simone's preoccupation with Sunny's disappearance had not faded. To the contrary, it was growing stronger, and the morning of Thursday, September 3, 2015 had brought it to the boiling point.
During her daily scouring of the internet, Simone recalled the events leading up to Sunny's disappearance as if it had occurred just the day before. On that perfect Sunday afternoon in the city, thousands of people attended the festival. Many were there to listen to the sound of several local bands, to celebrate the end of Summer Baltimore style with a sampling of succulent seafood dishes, including the city's staple delicacy: crabs, crabs, and more