Cake 01 [contemporary fiction]
Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant
CAKE 01-
One day, Dahl looked in the mirror and hated what she saw. The person looking back at her did not look like her, the person she was in her head.
She didn’t know when it had happened, but at some point she had stopped taking care of herself. She’d ceased grooming unless she was going somewhere, and her eyebrows had grown bushy and out of control. She could see the shadow of a mustache on her upper lip and there were even hairs bristling from her chin.
But what really got her attention was that somehow she had become fat. Not “pleasantly plump” as she’d always called herself, but unhealthily overweight. She didn’t know how she could have missed it happening, but there it was.