Author’s note: I tried more experimenting with this one. There are a few scenes where events with aunts and nephews, moms and sons, are happening simultaneously. In my head, they play as a movie, switching back and forth fluidly. I experimented with writing that. I didn’t use an asterisk to separate them, I just wrote
A Mother's Unexpected Encounter
Never in a million years did it cross Sara’s mind that anything like this would have happened today. She was a normal, middle-class woman in a very normal neighbourhood where nothing interesting ever happened, and everyone liked it that way. There was always gossip to be had about who had done what, and who might