Thespian Chloe
This is post 11 of Section II. To begin at the beginning, go here. Section II begins here.
At home, things were not as cool as they were supposed to be. Gregory had rediscovered his mother. Self-begotten, self-created Romantic that he was, he had once scarcely acknowledged her existence, but now that she lived just over the border in North Carolina and was happy to take the baby any time, he resumed his former intimacy with her.
At the same time he had deepened his love of drama. If the house was empty and there was a note from Grandma on the table, Chloe never knew whether she would later appear as dessert, complete with whipped cream from a can and maraschino cherries, or as Mistress Chloe, the Coercer.
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At home, things were not as cool as they were supposed to be. Gregory had rediscovered his mother. Self-begotten, self-created Romantic that he was, he had once scarcely acknowledged her existence, but now that she lived just over the border in North Carolina and was happy to take the baby any time, he resumed his former intimacy with her.
At the same time he had deepened his love of drama. If the house was empty and there was a note from Grandma on the table, Chloe never knew whether she would later appear as dessert, complete with whipped cream from a can and maraschino cherries, or as Mistress Chloe, the Coercer.
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posted by Hobbes at 6:48 PM
4 Comments:
In a way, I guess the 'other woman' is sometimes mama.
Maybe, in a strange way, here. But on the surface, at least, he's just using her for childcare.
Why can't she be both?
The cherries would fall off, Doug.
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