His 47 Seconds of Silence Cost Him Everything novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Finale
The stage manager met me at the side door at 6:40 with a headset around her neck and a clipboard.
She was a tall woman in black with a wrench-shaped keychain on her belt loop.
"You're the plumber's," she said.
"I'm Renee."
"Front row, seat 1, house left. Right on the aisle." She tapped the clipboard. "The mic stand goes live for audience questions after the second segment. I don't control who walks up to it."
"Thank you."
"Don't thank me. That pipe was a nightmare." She looked at me over the clipboard. "And I've got a nephew who catches."
The theater was old and gold and red, with a painted ceiling and nine hundred velvet seats.
Every one of them was full.
Moms in matching T-shirts that said TEAM STACY in pink glitter.
Moms filming the empty stage.
Three teenagers in the balcony holding up a sign that said BONUS MOM WHO?
I walked down the aisle to the front row with my head up.
People recognized me.
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