Expiration Date

A finalist for Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last Contest.

"Retribution isn't pretty. But it is immensely satisfying."

Lucy has known ever since she was a young girl that she was born with an expiration date. It's a fate that, according to her mother, no woman can avoid. Haunted by her mother's dire warnings, she makes her way in a world she believes will turn on her as soon as the bloom is off the rose. But unlike her mother, Lucy is ready to face this certain betrayal dead on.

She's going to have one hell of an expiration date.