While Cleaning Up After Dinner My Daughter In Law Whispered Something Cruel

that woman had grown old and been left alone. Rosie said that was nonsense and pushed a plate of lemon pie across the table. Adelaide ate it because there was no point arguing with Rosie, and because some part of the thing Rosie had said had lodged in her chest like a splinter and was already beginning to work its way inward. The evening she overheard continue reading …