Maggie

Maggie said you can hold your own in darts.

Maggie and her friend Matthew stood in the front yard and looked at the old house. The children knew they were not supposed to be there. Their parents told them it was dangerous. They told them some kid once went inside and fell through a floorboard and broke his leg.

Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.

I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―