Hide Her Name
“After all, Molly had known Tommy and Maura since the day they arrived on the four streets, when Maura was six months’ pregnant with Kitty. Molly had always admired Maura. She was a worker, that was for sure.Molly was so shocked at Daisy’s revelations, she inhaled a sultana from her fruit scone. What a palaver all that had been, thought Molly, as she pulled on her housecoat over her flannelette nightdress to walk downstairs.It was four o’clock in the morning and, abandoning sleep, she decided to... make a cup of tea as she placed the kettle onto the range and lit a candle. She didn’t want to switch the main light on, in case Annie O’Prey woke and saw the light in the backyard. Molly nursed a mild disdain for Annie, who felt the need to tell Molly and anyone else who would listen all of her business.‘That woman leaks like a colander,’ Molly had told her husband on a daily basis many years earlier, when he was still alive.Molly maintained a level of one-upmanship, simply by withholding information from the inquisitive Annie.Whilst Molly sat in her candlelit kitchen, in her hairnet and slippers, surrounded by a haze of blue smoke from her second Woodbine, burning in the ashtray next to her as she munched on a slice of fruit cake between puffs, she chuckled as she imagined the look on Annie’s face if she had a notion of what Molly knew following her chat with Daisy..Just at that moment, Tiger leapt in through the open kitchen window, making Molly jump with fright.MoreLess
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