Running Around (And Such)
“Lizzie went downstairs without answering. She felt like a prisoner being led to her fate, alone and condemned because of what had occurred.
Mam, Emma, and Mandy sat around the kitchen table. Dat was in the blue platform rocker reading a farm magazine. Surely Dat didn’t have to hear this, she thought fiercely. He was acting more and more suspicious of her ever since she started combing her hair a little more fancy. Lizzie sat down without lifting her eyes.
“So, Lizzie, what happened? I could tel...l the minute you walked in the door that you were not your usual happy self,” Mam said, not unkindly.
Lizzie glanced nervously in Dat’s direction. She swallowed the lump in her throat and knotted her hands in her lap. Slowly, resolutely, she retold the events of the past few months. She did not leave out any details or skip over anything that had led to that afternoon.
She felt as if she was hacking her way through dense underbrush, and that the further she came through it, the closer the soft, yellow light of a relieved conscience warmed her.MoreLess
Mam, Emma, and Mandy sat around the kitchen table. Dat was in the blue platform rocker reading a farm magazine. Surely Dat didn’t have to hear this, she thought fiercely. He was acting more and more suspicious of her ever since she started combing her hair a little more fancy. Lizzie sat down without lifting her eyes.
“So, Lizzie, what happened? I could tel...l the minute you walked in the door that you were not your usual happy self,” Mam said, not unkindly.
Lizzie glanced nervously in Dat’s direction. She swallowed the lump in her throat and knotted her hands in her lap. Slowly, resolutely, she retold the events of the past few months. She did not leave out any details or skip over anything that had led to that afternoon.
She felt as if she was hacking her way through dense underbrush, and that the further she came through it, the closer the soft, yellow light of a relieved conscience warmed her.MoreLess
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