Granny Nanny’s mean.

She dances to pounding music then oils her knees.

I hide the oil can.

She creaks and freezes, right in front of the fridge.

I’m starving. I can’t reach the handle. I’m too small to push her out of the way.

Fine. I get the oil can.

Brenda Anderson‘s fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, A Cappella Zoo, Punchnel’s, and Penumbra. She lives in Adelaide, South Australia.