Proserpina

When I opened my eyes, the world outside my window was grey; dusk had fallen, I thought hazily, wondering for a while what I was doing in bed.

Shouldn’t you be in the kitchen, supervising dinner? I asked myself tiredly, wondering why my head felt so woozy.

I raised a hand to my head as the room seemed to dip when I opened my eyes. I felt woozy and disoriented. As my mind cleared gradually, it all came back in a rush; the gaudy Fun Fort being delivered and set ...