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Mary was not only flawless in the kitchen, a Martha Stewart in the making, but pious and God-fearing with all the humility of a nun, risking the integrity of her fine china every Christmas on grandchildren who didn’t care for beef wellington, didn’t know the meaning of “braised,” and asked for at least six years running if she could heat up some hot dogs — don’t worry, they’d brought their own.

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Received my copy of Afterword in the mail this week!

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Jun 4, 2023·edited Jun 4, 2023Liked by Nina Schuyler

Beauregard was not only garishly dishevelled and excessively late to the baptism, he was also—unforgivably—dead. As his body fell out of the towel-closet face-first into the church pool, it would have dawned on him—had his sun not conclusively set the evening prior—that he was now the first corpse in the town's history to seek the status of being born-again.

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Lovely writing here :)

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Such an amazing line.

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(Thanks Nina for the prompt!)

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