Judith McRae

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“Emma's Best Nightmare” by Judith McRae

Submitted to Contest #113

Petunia Mae (Emma) Johnson was exhausted from yet another day of police interviews (a weekly event, now), trying to determine what had become of her only child, her son, Ryan, who had simply vanished from the care of his babysitter on Good Friday, April 2nd, at 2:47 pm, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Good Counsel, just five blocks away from the house. Their devoutly Catholic Filipina babysitter had taken him with her to their Good Friday service, hoping to transmit something of her faith to the boy. Emma didn’t mind this - she had no r...

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I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. I am spiritual, artsy, and generally easy-going. I have decades of experience being 12. I like to make people laugh. I have been a printer's gremlin, a delivery boy, a quality control inspector, a computer programmer, and a youth program coordinator, among other things. At the moment, I'm looking for what's next, and spending my free time writing and making paintings.