"Miss Martin," by Sheila Kohler, in Cutting Edge, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Akashic Press, 2019.
The publisher sent me a free ARC of this book.
Diane is a teenager and she is making a special trip home from her private boarding school. It is the first visit since her father married his secretary, Miss Martin. This followed her mother running off with a lover. You will not be surprised to know this is a family with problems.
Take a moment to think about stepmothers. Trophy wives. Secretaries who marry their bosses.
Got it? Okay, throw out all those stereotypes because Miss Martin and Diane are going to write a very different tale... Nice piece of work.