Domestic
Luke started to howl as Mum click-clicked the washing machine. “He’ll be all nice and fresh!” she cried in her bright and ruthless voice. Like when she’d kidnapped my cloth rabbit stuffed with her old stockings. Churned in boiling water and spun around, rabbit was so terrified he wet himself. Things went into her laundry basket as themselves and came out flattened.
Pushing aside the baby bouncer, I shouted, “You’re cruel and nasty. And a bad mother.”
My head was about to fly off and land on a shelf, still shouting bad mother, when she let go of my shoulders.
Photo Credit: Sunghwan Yoon
tense – things will never be nice and fresh again
tense moment – nice and fresh no more
Absolutely hair-raising. Well done.