Grandmalike

No, I'm in the sixth grade, standing in the dressing room with my mom and Gertrude .. . the grandmalike sales associate who helps the preteens pick out their first bras. My mom just keeps saying how I don't need a bra. (Jessica as her mom.)[…]

My heart softens for this kind grandmalike woman standing before me. Without much thought, I tell her yes. “But I have a job at a camp during the week until the end of the summer. I can only do weekends.” We're momentarily distracted by[…]

But it was neither Janet, the white-haired grandmalike lady who ran this place, nor her husband, Mike. No. The person who rounded the corner of the wardrobe—resplendent in a cowled green robe that, other than the color and the fact that[…]