01-15-2020, 11:30 AM
[CW: Child neglect, alcohol addiction]
Go to market, get some bread. One foot in front of the other. If she fell, at this time of day it would usually be broken by strangers. Besides, her personal stash was running a bit low.
The world was merely warmer, cheerier, instead of spinning like a street performer.
Her foot dragged when she passed by one of her watering holes, sweating. She had enough for a drink, right?
She always had enough for a drink – even when she didn’t. Besides! One of the boys had grown up and gone off on their own, or girls had gotten married, or … something, right? Drink now, figure it out later.
With a dazed smile, she pirouetted around and smashed an elbow into someone beside her, not even looking back in her enchanted march to familiar grounds.
Go to market, get some bread. One foot in front of the other. If she fell, at this time of day it would usually be broken by strangers. Besides, her personal stash was running a bit low.
The world was merely warmer, cheerier, instead of spinning like a street performer.
Her foot dragged when she passed by one of her watering holes, sweating. She had enough for a drink, right?
She always had enough for a drink – even when she didn’t. Besides! One of the boys had grown up and gone off on their own, or girls had gotten married, or … something, right? Drink now, figure it out later.
With a dazed smile, she pirouetted around and smashed an elbow into someone beside her, not even looking back in her enchanted march to familiar grounds.
