Lessons of a Lowcountry Summer (2004)
“The remains of one cigarette smoldered in a ceramic ashtray, while an unlit one lay close at hand. She allowed herself two cups of coffee and two cigarettes each day. It was a ritual she had established last year, and although her husband and children did not approve of her smoking, it was something she refused to give up. Cigarettes had become her only vice and overt act of rebellion.“Mama?”Rebecca closed her eyes. “What do you want?”“Look at me, Mama. Please.”Rebecca opened her eyes and came ...to her feet. It wasn’t her daughter’s tears that bothered her, because it seemed as if the teenage girl cried more than she smiled, but the angry abrasion on her chin.“What happened to you?” Her protective maternal instincts had surfaced.“Kyle found my diary,” Ashlee wailed in a trembling voice.“I’m not talking about your diary. What happened to your chin?”“I fell down the stairs.” She backed up at the same time her mother extended a hand. “Please don’t touch me, Mama.MoreLess
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