Gwen Mullins — The Monarch Review

In The Morning – Gwen Mullins

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:39 — 0 Comments

“Sometimes a woman just needs a good spanking,” Abby said, her back turned to James as she continued chopping onions, her eyes streaming. The stillness stretched as the words died in the air. Abby pushed vegetables into rows with her knife so that they formed a flag in colors of a country somewhere far from her: coins of carrots, clumps of corn cut fresh from the cob, okra sticky with white ooze, the onions.