The Wrong Daughter

by Dandy Smith

Wanting to please your parents is one of those universal instincts, like opening your mouth to apply mascara.

He’s desperate to sweep his rendezvous under the rug to avoid admitting his deceptions, but the rug is so lumpy now, one wrong step would mean a nasty tumble. A broken neck. There’s no room left under that rug.

More than anything, she wishes she could slip into another family and become someone else entirely.

STOPP-

You’ll just be another tragically unhinged woman with a traumatic past who ended it all.’