Spit up and the Suburbs

Stephanie Bush’s usually friendly face was pressed into an angry scowl when Alyssa pulled her car into her chalk-covered driveway.  “Hey!” Alyssa called innocently across the street as she hopped out of the car, a few Goldfish falling out on the driveway at her feet. Bryn and Penny were next…

No matter how much she cringed at the sight of them, the truth was, both Trish and Lanie served an important purpose in the community: saving moms like Alyssa from having to spend even ten seconds at a nauseating PTO meeting. Indeed, these ladies could plan a fall party for…

The next step in her still formulating plan was definitely to get Stephanie Bush on her side. There was no other way the plan would work. How exactly she would do this, well, that part was less clear. Of course, she already knew quite a bit about Stephanie’s daily habits…

After returning from the deeply humbling experience that was the back-to-school night, with Trish’s cronies ruling the event as if they were in charge of the entire school, Alyssa was stunned to find that all was quiet in the Keadon household. The kids were asleep—yes, all five of them; a…