Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle by Reinhardt Susan

Author:Reinhardt, Susan [Reinhardt, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781935130628
Publisher: Grateful Steps Foundation
Published: 2013-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

“But she’s married,” Mama said, urging Miranda into another room. “Married women have certain rights.” Mama stood to take the boiling kettle off the stove, probably so she wouldn’t have to face me while talking about sex. She continued with the sex talk and tea preparations, her scrawny behind wasting to bone and skin in her black jeans. A thin woman, take note, should not wear black. It will make her appear withered, as if she’s been roasting on a gas grill for two days.

“Rights? What rights?”

“Prudy, you know what I’m talking about; you just want to challenge me.”

“Don’t you think I have rights?” I was almost at the point, lust-wise, of putting a personal ad in the paper. “Wanted, DFHMWMOT (Disease Free Heterosexual Man With Majority Of Teeth) for three to four nights of fun. No attachments. No commitments.” But I would never do something like that. Not me. Not Prudence the Pure. I would dream about it and avoid thoughts of lust like the Baptists warned against, like my mother feared worst than the Devil, using as an example that divorced friend Carla Tisdale with the uncontrollable urges.

“She hits the singles bars every night,” Mama said for the umpteenth time, cutting off the gas stove. “Drinking her tequila like it was water and then taking men home and doing Lord knows what to their male parts.”

“I’m not Carla, Mother.” She poured the hot tea in a ceramic pitcher to cool. “Don’t you think women have needs in the same way as a man?”

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