A brittle young woman juggles her overbearing mother, her pregnant sister, her adoring father, and the intrigue of a handsome stranger she keeps running into. Angie's passive role in her own life, while acting as her sister's support and her mother's adversary, is upended in both the unlikeliest and likeliest of ways.
Cassandra Dunn, a Bay Area native, is the author of The Art of Adapting (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster). She was a semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and a finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She's published twelve short stories. She has two amazing daughters and one awesome Vizsla.
I enjoyed this short story. It's a good piece of creative writing. The ending was sudden and could be something for the author to build from in a sequel.