chapter 36

In Which Uncle Jayne’s Cell Phone Plays the Entire First Verse of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

Uncle Jayne’s phone went off.

It got as far as “He knows if you’ve been bad or good” before he could wrestle open the big hooks on his Santa Claus jacket, pull the phone out, and answer it.

“Darling,” he said into the phone. Uncle Jayne was always calling Aunt Margaret darling, even though they’d been married for almost fifty-one thousand years.