#769 The Whipping- Julia Elliott
Kate is an adolescent girl who just got caught stealing a pack of her father’s cigarettes. She will be punished, whipped. This story is the countdown to that whipping. They won’t whip her right away because whipping a child while angry is akin to abuse. So she spends her time trying to keep her father angry to delay the inevitable; angry or drunk because he won’t whip her while he’s drunk either. Unfortunately for her, her father is very adept at whipping:
“My father, an elementary school principal who paddles kids for a living, has several lines on his resume devoted to his whipping expertise. He’s developed it into a high artform.”
There is definitely something off about the father. And like father, like children, they take cues from that oddness. The macabre killing and eating of the robin is another punishment, one that the whole family must suffer.
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