Scene 12: Mama’s Snack
After tucking her Kitten into bed, Mama trudged to the kitchen. She was exhausted, but she had some serious thinking to do and wanted her evening snack. She needed something to make herself feel better. She was too tired to make herself a Dagwood, and she did not have any leftover French fries to eat with mustard, so after filling a soup bowl with rocky road ice cream, she plopped into the oversize recliner in the living room, and recalled her morning.
She had stayed home until Mr. Hinton could take Karen to school, and she had been there when he brought her back. She liked Mr. Hinton, and she liked the school and its principal, but she knew that the school had to change if it were to provide for her Kitten.
She had arrived at work a little after eight that morning. Her boss had taken on a new case that looked interesting, but it had taken all her energy to deal with it. A man had been charged with murder in connection with his sister’s marital problems, and he would go to the electric chair if her boss could not prove him innocent. As usual, her boss was relying on her to pull together the details that his brilliant mind could turn into a winning courtroom argument. She had met the man and could not believe he was guilty, so she was committed to helping him as well as helping her boss.
This was difficult enough, but in the middle of the day, the mother of one of her daughter’s friends had telephoned her with even more disturbing news.
Original text ©2022 by Karen Lynn-Chlup. All rights reserved.
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