Rysa Walker Quote

Miss Kate! Kiernan exclaimed, pointing. What happened to your toes? What? I glanced down, half expecting to see a leech or a cut or some other trauma, but there was nothing odd. What are you talking about? Your toenails. They’re all —it looks like blood! Oh, I laughed. That’s just nail polish. It’s chipped off in a few places. It looks like paint. Kiernan sniffed disapprovingly. I sighed. This was one of the anachronisms that Katherine would probably have caught as I prepared to leave. Did young women paint their nails in the 1890s? Had nail polish even been invented yet? I had no clue. Well, it is paint, sort of, I said. Me mom says… He shook his head and fell silent. What does your mom say, Kiernan? He didn’t answer. No, really, I won’t be angry. What does she say? She says only whores wear paint, he said, staring down at the grass. They usually wear it on their faces, though. I never even heard of painted toes.

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Miss Kate! Kiernan exclaimed, pointing. What happened to your toes? What? I glanced down, half expecting to see a leech or a cut or some other trauma, but there was nothing odd. What are you talking about? Your toenails. They’re all —it looks like blood! Oh, I laughed. That’s just nail polish. It’s chipped off in a few places. It looks like paint. Kiernan sniffed disapprovingly. I sighed. This was one of the anachronisms that Katherine would probably have caught as I prepared to leave. Did young women paint their nails in the 1890s? Had nail polish even been invented yet? I had no clue. Well, it is paint, sort of, I said. Me mom says… He shook his head and fell silent. What does your mom say, Kiernan? He didn’t answer. No, really, I won’t be angry. What does she say? She says only whores wear paint, he said, staring down at the grass. They usually wear it on their faces, though. I never even heard of painted toes.

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About Rysa Walker

Rysa Walker is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries. Her first novel, Timebound, was the 2013 Grand Prize winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.