Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.
The lucky ones are just born dead.
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.