Sixteen

By Cynthia Lee

Dolores is staying with her grandmother for the summer. Dolores discovers a very old mirror in her grandmother's attic. Someone in the mirror talks to her, tells Doll what she must do, how she should behave, how she should be. No one knows what Doll is doing up in the attic. But they are going to find out soon. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gondal Press
• Release date: Mar 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224586196

Cynthia Lee

Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat.  After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own.  Penny Dreadful is her first novel.   

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Sixteen

CYNTHIA LEE

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Sixteen

My grandmother owned a very old mirror. She liked to tell people how much it cost her. ($30,000 dollars). It sat on the floor and stretched to the ceiling. It seemed enormous, inescapable, fathomless. I remember asking it questions on summer days that stretched, lazy as cats.

Her house was very old and very expensive. She claimed a famous businessman from the 19th century had built it. It had white columns in the front and porches round the sides. It sprouted some kind of tower or turret, as if it were sentient life making an attempt at reproduction.

I stayed with Granny for the summer I turned 16. Granny bustled about in her house, talking on her iphone, directing the landscapers (in strident tones) and fussing at the housekeeper. She spent the rest of her days in her room, watching TV or reading romance novels. I would go to see her in the mornings.

What are your plans for the day, Doll? she’d say.

My name was Dolores. I was a