Not a Chance in Helen
“LADIES, CAN I have your attention, please.”
Voices continued buzzing across town hall despite the desperate plea for quiet. To Helen’s ears, the sum of them sounded like an angry swarm of bees.
“Ladies, could I have your . . . aw, hell, girls, would you all just shut up!”
Helen watched mouths pause midsentence as heads turned forward to the podium, where Verna Mabry stood in a pink cotton sheath and matching straw hat. Chairs squeaked as the members of the Ladies Civic Improvement L...eague settled in to listen to their president, though Helen doubted anything Verna had to say would garner nearly as much interest as the news of Eleanora Duncan’s demise. Her death the previous night seemed to have already made the rounds on the local grapevine, which was, she thought, much like Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet.
“She was past eighty after all”—someone behind her was murmuring—“and she did have a lot of hate in her heart at the end.MoreLess
Voices continued buzzing across town hall despite the desperate plea for quiet. To Helen’s ears, the sum of them sounded like an angry swarm of bees.
“Ladies, could I have your . . . aw, hell, girls, would you all just shut up!”
Helen watched mouths pause midsentence as heads turned forward to the podium, where Verna Mabry stood in a pink cotton sheath and matching straw hat. Chairs squeaked as the members of the Ladies Civic Improvement L...eague settled in to listen to their president, though Helen doubted anything Verna had to say would garner nearly as much interest as the news of Eleanora Duncan’s demise. Her death the previous night seemed to have already made the rounds on the local grapevine, which was, she thought, much like Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet.
“She was past eighty after all”—someone behind her was murmuring—“and she did have a lot of hate in her heart at the end.MoreLess
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