Kitchen Acceptance

by Nealy Gihan

Miranda, doctor's wife and mother, has filled her days and nights with bake sales, school snacks, dinner parties and birthday cakes. No culinary challenge has ever stumped her, but now she finds herself in a stew over her son's fiance. As Miranda struggles to accept the new woman in her son's life, she works to whisk out the lumps in her marriage in this short story on the upper middle class.

13 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 13, 2013

About the author

Ever since she could hold a pencil in her hand and form letters, Nealy Gihan has loved writing. This Midwest Jersey girl is a former newspaper reporter and copyeditor who now labors in coastal Virginia as a corporate copywriter by day and lives as a fiction writer by night.

Nealy holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Hampton University and a master's in literary writing from DePaul University. She has published short stories and has written a couple of screenplays, which have been performed in Chicago.