Names I Call My Sister
Stories
Chapter One
Dori Orihuela thought once again that she never should've left Denver when she turned onto the dirt driveway leading to Grammy Cena's house.
Bordered on both sides by solid walls of nopal cactus, Dori thought once again that her sister, Sela, should've been put in charge of Grammy Cena. Sela had always been her favorite. But no one could count on them showing up at the wedding sober, much less showing up at all, and so the duty fell on her.
Grammy Cena's dogs, Pepe and Churro, charged and snarled at Dori's RAV4. She stopped a few feet from the porch, cut the engine and rolled down her passenger window.
"Grammy, it's me! Don't shoot!—
At the sound of her voice, the dogs' snarls turned to joyous cries for attention.
Grammy opened the door and came out onto the porch. "Something bad is going to happen at this wedding,— Grammy's witchy voice declared from the sagging little house with the giant pepper tree in the back. Dori bet the tree still had the rope swing that her brother and sister wo ... read full excerpt from Names I Call My Sister ebook
