The Conditions

Four women share a carpool. One of them knows what happened to the boy who went missing two years ago.

Bianca has been riding to work with the same three women for three years. Teresa drives. Patty sits up front. Felipa talks. The route crosses the river, passes the plant, and nobody mentions the boy whose flyers are still taped to the Dollar General window.

Then one of them repeats something overheard. A detail about what the boy that never made the news.

Bianca watches the women in the car. Nobody else caught it.

"A domestic thriller about a small town, a carpool, and the thing nobody will say out loud."