Ash & Bramble (2015)
“MY STEPMAMA ORDERS. SHE AND MY stepsisters are at the table eating tiny bites of toast and mushrooms. I am in the doorway, leaving the blue breakfast room after lugging the chafing dishes on trays from the kitchen. My feet hurt, and I have a blistered burn on my hand from picking up a boiling kettle, and I am tired after working until midnight polishing the silver. I woke before dawn, curled up on the kitchen hearth as close to the cooling embers as I could get for warmth.
“Now, Penelope!” Step...mama insists. “Tea!”
And it is all so . . . predictable. Stepmama playing the role assigned to her by Lady Faye, one she appears to relish very much, my stepsisters playing their roles not quite as convincingly, and me stuck in the middle of it.
Or so it would seem.
“I don’t have to put up with this,” I tell her, and tuck the tray under my arm.
Stepmama rears back from the table. “What?” she sputters. “What did you say?” Dulcet has paused with her teacup halfway to her lips; Precious stares with her eyebrows raised.MoreLess
“Now, Penelope!” Step...mama insists. “Tea!”
And it is all so . . . predictable. Stepmama playing the role assigned to her by Lady Faye, one she appears to relish very much, my stepsisters playing their roles not quite as convincingly, and me stuck in the middle of it.
Or so it would seem.
“I don’t have to put up with this,” I tell her, and tuck the tray under my arm.
Stepmama rears back from the table. “What?” she sputters. “What did you say?” Dulcet has paused with her teacup halfway to her lips; Precious stares with her eyebrows raised.MoreLess
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