Graven Images by Jane Waterhouse

Author:Jane Waterhouse [Waterhouse, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brash Books, LLC
Published: 2016-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Outside, a fine mist had begun to fall. I walked through the kitchen door shaking rain out of my hair like a dog. Cilda was at the table, warming her crooked hands around a steaming mug of hot chocolate. I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was after eight, and she might or might not talk—her method of reminding me that no matter how long we’d been together, we weren’t family, we weren’t roommates, Cilda Fields was my employee, and any time after eight was her own, so she’d speak only if she felt like it, t’ank you very much.

“Where’s Temple?”

“Where would she be now that she got a phone in her room?” Naturally Cilda would have to get that little dig in. During the trial I’d succumbed—mostly out of the guilt of an absentee mom—to Temple’s pleas for a line of her own.

“Everything okay here?” I asked lightly, sensitive to the fact that most weeks of the year it was “Everything okay there?” But somewhere during my careful framing of the question, Mrs. Fields had retreated behind her checked-out, locked-up, after-eight face. She looked down into her cocoa as though reading the sworls of chocolate, like tea leaves, which said, Everyting’s fine. Go to bed, Ga’ner Quinn. I got it all under control, as usual.

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