The Room Beyond
“Her mother was wearing her linen nightgown, her hair plaited into two grey ropes hanging pendulously over her shoulders.
‘Miranda darling, get me my medicine.’ She didn’t like being in charge of mother. The medicine cupboard was so high up that she had to drag the biggest chair in the kitchen over to it and even then her childish legs could only take her so far, even on tiptoe.
She strained her arm towards the bottle with such force that she thought her ribs might tear apart.
‘Hurry Darling!’ T...he voice was getting thin and watery; she smarted at its urgency and imagined the cracked lips through which it had travelled. Her hand fell on a bottle and she grabbed hold of it, her feet falling back flat on the chair and her heels just saving her from performing a clumsy backflip onto the stone floor.
The bottle looked alright; full of brown gooey stuff. And wasn’t Mummy’s medicine just like that, brown and gooey? She gazed up again at the cupboard, it seemed to have stretched even further away, and then back at the bottle.MoreLess
‘Miranda darling, get me my medicine.’ She didn’t like being in charge of mother. The medicine cupboard was so high up that she had to drag the biggest chair in the kitchen over to it and even then her childish legs could only take her so far, even on tiptoe.
She strained her arm towards the bottle with such force that she thought her ribs might tear apart.
‘Hurry Darling!’ T...he voice was getting thin and watery; she smarted at its urgency and imagined the cracked lips through which it had travelled. Her hand fell on a bottle and she grabbed hold of it, her feet falling back flat on the chair and her heels just saving her from performing a clumsy backflip onto the stone floor.
The bottle looked alright; full of brown gooey stuff. And wasn’t Mummy’s medicine just like that, brown and gooey? She gazed up again at the cupboard, it seemed to have stretched even further away, and then back at the bottle.MoreLess
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