Summary

“Anything Could Disappear” (132) is narrated in the third person and follows a character named Vera. Vera was taking a bus to New York when a woman left a child next to her and asked her to watch him. Vera observed that the child was brown-skinned and the woman was white. The woman, who was also with a young girl, walked to the back of the bus. Preparing to get off at her stop, Vera tried to spot the boy’s mother, but did not see her. She exited the bus with the boy, realizing that none of the passengers had noticed that he was not her child because the color of her hair and skin matched his. Vera considered going to the police, but she had a package of cocaine with her, which she was carrying as a favor to Josh, her...