Louise Shaffer

O LD MISSUSM'2004SOMETHING WAS UP. From the hallway outside her bedroom she heard the words Old Missus murmuredor possibly they were shouted; her ears were sharp for a ninety-year-old, but even she couldn t hear through thick pine doors the way she used to. For a moment she contemplated protesting....

Ch apter One She'd gone to bed with her shoes on, and not by accident. She'd deliberately climbed under the covers fully clothed and pushed her shod feet down between the clean sheets. Because she feit like it. Because she was mad at the world at large and whatever force passed for God in...