Today’s six comes from The Redheaded Stepchild, my debut novel. In this vignette, Catherine and her siblings are saying goodbye to their father and hello to their mother for the summer.
Dad was one of the only people Luke would hug. It took him almost a year before he was able to give Katrina a hug, and even that was like watching a walking stick try to hug a caterpillar. He stretched one arm just above where Teresa was still attached and nodded as Dad told him to be good. I’m sure Dad didn’t want another late July call from Mom about how his two oldest children had broken her blender trying to make a concoction called “Gross” which they made their baby sister eat by tying her to a chair. Oddly, Mom had been angrier about the broken blender and wasted food than the sibling abuse. Teresa unleeched herself and went skipping off, holding the My Little Pony that had replaced Mr. Monkey Man as number one toy.
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