Millie And The Night Heron (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Mum and Sheri were sitting around in the kitchen, our sitting-around room. The lounge room was the TV zone. Only Mitchell’s dad sat in there—to discuss parenting issues with Sheri while Mum and I went for a long walk with Pavlov so we weren’t in the way or, worse still, influencing the decision making. The kitchen was where all other decisions were made. ‘I’ve finished my single-mother phase,’ Sheri said. ‘I have to find a man, Kate. This single life sucks. I don’t know how you’ve coped for so long.’ ‘There’s no one in this town,’ Mum said calmly. She was cutting the sweet potato up faster than I could peel it. We were cooking dahl—that’s an Indian curry dish with lentils. Sheri’s been a vegetarian since mad cow disease broke out in England. That was Patrick’s fault. Patrick’s my dad. Mum calls him the diva. He lives in England where mad cow disease was really bad. ‘There are lots of people in this town,’ I said, peeling my next sweet potato around and around, which is harder than just plain up and down.
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