12.09.10
100 Words – Day 8
100 Words Entry – Day 8
It was after the fact when Miriam finally confessed, by that time having opened her own small bakery on Draught Lane, a few streets down from the old neighborhood. She was surprisingly forthcoming with us, feeling that the secrecy and paranoia that was built into every stone and brick of our district was strangling us and any future we thought we might have. So she talked about The Women’s Council, a group of local women who took it on themselves to provide help and support to the families of our streets, without the approval or knowledge of the district governors.