dropped the feather at her lime-green painted toenails. She stepped on it with her stiletto heel, then sank down into her once shabby-chic couch that she had since reupholstered in black leather. The leather wasn’t as comfortable. Neither were the stilettos. And lime green was never her color.
“Meow.”
She slipped off her sandals and tiptoed to her desk. The embossed letters on the spine of her Volume I first- edition of
Maybe you could mix e-mail and etiquette. Business and bird-watching. Nineteenth-century courtship and modern-day feminism. The best of Austen and the worst of our reality.
Maybe she and Abigail could find a way to live in both worlds.
Her cursor lingered over the send button for a long time, but final y she clicked the mouse. And once you hit send, there’s no going back.